Existential Togetherness: Toward a Common Black Religious Heritage - Softcover

Stallworth, DeWayne R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532651619 ISBN 13: 9781532651618

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2019

Synopsis

The notion of community entails more than just shared space in the here-and-now moment. For African Americans especially, communal engagement is a sacred experience that stretches from the mundane to the spectacular in a cyclical historical pattern. DeWayne R. Stallworth illumines the broadness of this African American religious experience by looking back to the first shared experience of unbiased community that occurred during slavery. He then explores the difficulties of maintaining such a unity under the threat of supremacy as experienced through systemic structures of both white and black privilege. Most important, Stallworth unpacks how the black religious leader, although caricatured as uncouth and ignorant, remained the moral compass for community progression and uplift until the civil rights era. This provocative book is essential reading for anyone with a desire to obtain a broader and deeper understanding of what it means to be black, religious, and American in the twenty-first-century United States.

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About the Authors

DeWayne R. Stallworth is a lecturer, essayist, cultural critic, consultant, and religious studies scholar.

Lewis V. Baldwin is Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He is the author or editor of eleven books on Martin Luther King, Jr., including The Voice of Conscience: The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1532651619
• ISBN 13: 9781532651618
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178