Taking the influential work of Arthur Huff Fauset as a starting point to                  break down the false dichotomy that exists between mainstream and marginal, a new                  generation of scholars offers fresh ideas for understanding the religious                  expressions of African Americans in the United States. Fauset's 1944 classic, Black                  Gods of the Metropolis, launched original methods and theories for thinking about                  African American religions as modern, cosmopolitan, and democratic. The essays in                  this collection show the diversity of African American religion in the wake of the                  Great Migration and consider the full field of African American religion from                  Pentecostalism to Black Judaism, Black Islam, and Father Divine's Peace Mission                  Movement. As a whole, they create a dynamic, humanistic, and thoroughly                  interdisciplinary understanding of African American religious history and life. This                  book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African American                  experience.

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