How Pentecostalism Emerged as a form of Resistance to Racial Oppression in the US

The history of resistance to black racial oppression in the US dates back at least to slavery. From abolition to the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther party, and the BlackLivesMatter Movement, each of these oppositions to racial injustice has been much discussed in the literature, but less of...

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Main Author: Apata, Gabriel O. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor and Francis Group 2021
In: Culture and religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 46-63
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Pentecostal churches / Blacks / Racial discrimination / Resistance / Protest movements / Traditionelle afrikanische Religion / Geschichte 1900-
IxTheo Classification:BS Traditional African religions
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
CG Christianity and Politics
CH Christianity and Society
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBQ North America
KDG Free church
Further subjects:B Resistance
B Pentecostalism
B Africa
B racial oppression
B black ontology
B Resilience
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Summary:The history of resistance to black racial oppression in the US dates back at least to slavery. From abolition to the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther party, and the BlackLivesMatter Movement, each of these oppositions to racial injustice has been much discussed in the literature, but less often discussed is the role that Pentecostalism played in shaping black struggle for racial justice. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by showing how Pentecostalism in the US emerged as perhaps the first organised black protestant movement of the post bellum years. It traces its roots to African culture and argues that Pentecostalism embodied the positive ontology of black cultural expressionism and empowerment, which laid the foundation for the resistance movements that came later. This is the ontology of the spirit and performance from which blackness drew its resilience and resistance to racial oppression.
ISSN:1475-5629
Contains:Enthalten in: Culture and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2023.2175880