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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461039003321

Autore

Catron John W.

Titolo

Embracing Protestantism : black identities in the Atlantic world / / John W. Catron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8130-5108-8

0-8130-5570-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

270.7089/96

Soggetti

Black people - Atlantic Ocean Region - Religion

Christians, Black - Atlantic Ocean Region - History

Protestantism - History

African diaspora - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Christianity in Atlantic Africa before 1800 -- The favorite of heaven: Antigua and the growth of black Atlantic Christianity -- Early black Atlantic Christianity in the middle colonies -- Black evangelical diaspora in the greater Caribbean -- Afro-Christian diaspora in the age of revolution.

Sommario/riassunto

By examining eighteenth-century black Christianity in multiple locales and tracing the circuits of black evangelicals as they traveled through Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America, Catron examines how many Afro-Protestants maintained cultural and intellectual ties outside the confines of America's plantation complex and suggests they might be better understood as Atlantic Africans.