Black Religion in America

Black Religion in America is an introduction to the religious history of African Americans from the period of slavery to the twenty-first century. It analyses Black people’s varying religious responses to W.E.B. Du Bois’s notion of double consciousness, the experience of racial exclusion in America, of having “two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings, two warring ideals in one dark body.” The book traces the social justice thought and activism of Black Christians, Conjurors, Muslims,