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

• Autore: Catron John W.
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 270.7089/96
• Soggetto topico: Black people - Atlantic Ocean Region - Religion; Christians, Black - Atlantic Ocean Region - History; Protestantism - History; African diaspora - History
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Embracing Protestantism
• ISBN: 0-8130-5108-8; 0-8130-5570-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807747303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II