Bound for the Promised Land

Autorentext
Milton C. Sernett is Professor of African American studies at Syracuse University. He is the author of African-American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, also published by Duke University Press.

Klappentext
Here is the first extensive examination of the impact of the Great Migration--the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I--on the American religious landscape. BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND sheds new light on various components of the development of black religion, including philanthropic endeavors to "modernize" the southern black rural church. 368 pp. .


Zusammenfassung
Offers an examination of the impact of the Great Migration - the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I - on the American religious landscape. This book shows how the mass migration created an institutional crisis for black religious leaders.

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