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12 Cards in this Set
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Atlantic Slave Trade
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1600 - 1900 brought an estimated 12 million enslaved people from western Africa to the 'New World' |
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Syncretic |
"Synthesis" - The combining of different beliefs in this case of African and European (and others) -e.g. chanted sermon, charismatic and ecstatic worship, spirit work, and exorcism, etc |
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African American Christianity |
- born out of reinterpretation of Christianity through African idioms and of African idioms through Christianity |
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Invisible institution |
refers to enslaved African people beginning to hold their own church meetings, often in secret. |
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African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church |
1792 Absalom Jones incident at St. Georges AME founded in 1816, grew out of the Free African society, a church and aide society with Richard Allen (1794) The first African American denomination in the U.S. |
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White Supremacy |
A form of ethnocentrism and racial supremacy, the belief that people of the 'white race' are superior to, and should be socially and politically dominate over all other races. |
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Give two examples as to how white supremacists justify white supremacy through verses in the bibile |
The 'mark of cain' (genesis 4) The 'curse of Ham' (genesis 9) |
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Exodus |
The book of exodus in the Hebrew Bible relates the story of Moses leading the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt into 'the promised land' of Canaan |
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John Winthrop's invocation of the mosaic covenant (28-29) and 'white' preacher's used what idea to justifying the enslavement of African people? |
Used the idea that the puritans had journeyed 'out of Egypt' to the American "promised land' and 'New Israel' for the enslavement of African people The mythic exodus narrative was flipped: it was America that was Pharaoh's Egypt and they who were enslaved Israelites, praying for deliverance to the 'Promised land' of freedom |
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Psalm 68:31 |
"Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands" -"Princes shall come out of Egypt and Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands unto god" -Linked the mythic past (the Egypt narrative and a glorious African past of Egyptian and Ethiopian kingdoms) and a mythic future for African Americans |
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Redemptive Suffering |
Placed African American Christians in a state of moral superiority over those who had enslaved them which overturned the idea of the Hamitic Curse since it was the descendants of Ham (Egypt and Ethiopia) who were to be chosen of God who could 'save Africa' and the world by practicing the 'true Christianity'. |
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Ethnocentrism |
Sociology Def: the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture. a tendency to view alien groups or cultures from the perspective of one's own. |
