In Plantation Church, Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of
the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the
Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when
people talk about the "Black Church" they are referring to
African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact, the majority of
African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine
argues, that the Black religious experience was born. The massive
Afro-Caribbean population was able to establish a form of
Christianity that preserved African Gods and practices, but fused
them with Christian teachings, resulting in religions such as
Cuba's Santeria. Despite their common ancestry, the Black religious
experience in the U.S. was markedly different because African
Americans were a political and cultural minority. The Plantation
Church became a place of solace and resistance that provided its
members with a sense of kinship, not only to each other but also to
their ancestral past. Despite their common origins, the Caribbean
and African American Church are almost never studied together. This
book investigates the parallel histories of these two strands of
the Black Church, showing where their historical ties remain strong
and where different circumstances have led them down unexpectedly
divergent paths. The result will be a work that illuminates the
histories, theologies, politics, and practices of both branches of
the Black Church. This project presses beyond the nation state
framework and raises intercultural and interregional questions with
implications for gender, race and class. Noel Leo Erskine employs a
comparative method that opens up the possibility of rethinking the
language and grammar of how Black churches have been understood in
the Americas and extends the notion of church beyond the United
States. The forging of a Black Christianity from sources African
and European, allows for an examination of the meaning of church
when people of African descent are culturally and politically in
the majority. Erskine also asks the pertinent question of what
meaning the church holds when the converse is true: when African
Americans are a cultural and political minority.
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