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- Title
Religious Conversion, Ethics, and the Afro-American Slave: Evaluating Alternative Approaches.
- Authors
Sanders, Cheryl J.
- Abstract
Evaluates works on the religious conversion experience of Afro-American slaves and its social ethical consequences. Identification of the struggle for freedom as an essential ingredient in black religion in Cecil Cone's 'The Identity Crisis in Black Theology'; Olli Alho's analysis of the role of religion as an ideology of submission and resistance in 'The Religion of the Slaves.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ENSLAVED African Americans; CONVERSION to Christianity; AFRICAN American religions; IDENTITY Crisis in Black Theology (Book); RELIGION of the Slaves, The (Book)
- Publication
Journal of Religious Thought, 1989, Vol 45, Issue 2, p7
- ISSN
0022-4235
- Publication type
Article