Ain't Gonna Lay My 'Ligion Down - (Northwestern Series in Transnational) by Alonzo Johnson & Paul T Jersild (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Two final essays explore African American folk religion by examining the contributions of prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century church leaders.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This text examines how African Americans have created distinctive forms of religious expression. Contributors explore the degree to which newly imported slaves preserved their African spiritual heritage whilst meshing it with Western symbols and theological claims.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"Ain't Gonna Lay My 'Ligion Down" reveals the ways that African Americans have "put flesh on their Christian beliefs", adapting the faith of their European American masters and creating distinctive forms of religious expression. The contributors to the volume examine specific African American religious customs and practices - seekin' the Lord, ring shouting, dancing, pray's houses, ecstatic trances, spirit possession, folk songs, music, tales - and the efforts of African American religious leaders to show the remarkable degree to which newly imported slaves preserved their African spiritual heritage while simultaneously meshing it with Western symbols and theological claims.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Paul Jersild is professor of theology and ethics and co-director of the Center on Religion in the South at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina.</p>
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