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60 Cards in this Set
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Synchretism
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Mixing of religious ideas; when your religion intersects another
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Cognitive Orientation
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when something gets carried on; not knowing the specifics of the action, but knowing its done all the time.
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E. Franklin Frazier
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Said slaves did not bring any culture from Africa
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Melville Herskovits
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Said that slaves did bring their cultures from Africa
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Sidney Mintz and Richard Price
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Said its ridiculous to move from point to point; cognitive orientation; 1976
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Olaudah Equiano
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Former slave; from West Africa, an Ibo; believed in one creator that created all things, protection from ancestor spirits and also libations etc...
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Bryan Edwards
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Obeah, Obiah, Obia; Obe, Obi; Obiamen/women-those who practice Obi; witchcraft and sorcery
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First Independent Denominations-Richard Allen and James Varick
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African Methodist Episcopal Church (1816) and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1821)
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Cotton Mather
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The Negro Christianized (1706)-10 Commandments for slaves
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Cotton Mather: The Negro Christianized
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Says if you have slaves you might at well take the opportunity to convert them
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The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (S.P.G.)
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Role was to preach the Gospel to African and Native American Slaves; est. 1701
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Methodist: Circuit-riders
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A minister would go on horseback, riding to different churches during the day to preach at them
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Cathechesis
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Series of questions and answers in advanced that must be memorized and then you must pass a test on it.
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"Hush Harbors"
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Where slaves would gather in the woods and worship and preach to themselves in secret
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John Wesley, Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke
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Founders and early leaders of Methodism
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First Separate Black Church
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Belonged to the Baptist Church between 1773 and 1775 in Silver Bluff, SC. Silver Bluff Church
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David George
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Converted by Palmer (white); Pastored Silver Bluff Church; Fled to Nova Scotia in 1782; then founded a Baptist church at Shelbourne; migrated again to Sierra Leone
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George Liele
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Friend of David George; converted by White Baptist minister around 1773; founded Silver Bluff in 1773, first independent african baptist church in the south; founded in Yamma Craw, SC; preached in Silver Bluff then went to Jamaica 1784 and organized first Baptist church on the island
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Andrew Bryan
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another minister; slave; purchased freedom in 1802; preached in Silver bluff
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Prooftext
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taking scripture w/o looking at the verses around it
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Exegesis
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looking at everything around the text, history, time period, why, etc...
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Evangelicalism
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1. Authority of the Bible (scripture)
2. Salvation/"Born Again" 3. Personal Piety 4. Missions/Evangelism |
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H. Richard Neibuhr
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Felt real Christianity takes place in sects outside the church; the sect does the work of God and will eventually become a church, then the cycle repeats;church divided into castes
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Niebuhr
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believes today when you become Methodist/Baptist you become upwardly noble; mostly Middle class; transformed from working class to middle/upper class by the 19th C. --> become a church
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Evangelical Churches growing and Mainline Churches diminishing
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They want and need a social cost; social cost provides social cohesion; evangelicalism competes better then mainline relgions/churches; ex)Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses have too much social cost
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mourner's bench (anxious seat)
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slaves sit on this and think on their sins in service; hope to be converted
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Goopher dust
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Dust off of a slave grave
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Immediatist style
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God's present and everyone should be involved in invoking God's presence
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Slave "Ceilia"
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Missouri statute; she was raped by her master, and finally she killed him in self-defense, but she was charged with murder and hanged because the Missouri statute saying "all women" did not include Black women.
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Slave marriages
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Not legally binding; families can be broken up at any time; traditionally jump the broom
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American Colonization Society (ACS)
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founded to repatriate free blacks; sending free blacks back to Africa
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Sierra Leone
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British Colony established for Free Blacks
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Liberia
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American Colony established for free blacks; capital of Liberia is Monrovia-named after our president at the time
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William Thornton
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Proposed the idea of Blacks going back to Africa
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Lott Cerney/Carney/Carey
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First African American missionary to Africa (Liberia)
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Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) supported FAS
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Also wanted to free slaves and abolish slavery
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Quakers
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Philadelphia; very egalitarian; first to oppose slavery; first to propose a law to abolish slavery; free blacks could meet in Quaker bulidings
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Free African Society
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Founded in November 1787/1792
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First Baptist Church in England
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Started in 1609
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Richard Allen
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Founded Mother Bethel in 1794; became first Bishop; founded the first independent black denomination African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
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Absalom Jones
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Founded African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in 1794; first Black saint
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St. Georges Methodist Episcopal Church
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Philadelphia; integrated congregation; told blacks to go sit in their "designated" section in the back; forced off their knees during prayer, so they walked out (Richard Allen)
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Will B. Gravely
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said black communities weren't allowed to have roles in the church which added to problems between whites and blacks
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Mary R. Sawyer
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National Baptist Convention U.S.A.-->one of the Baptist denominations that endured today; 1897 the largest Holiness Pentacostal Church formed
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Benjamin Rush
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Friend of the black community; joined Richard Allen in raising funds for an African church
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What religion did among African People...
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Many slave rebellions stopped from betrayal of a couple slaves; many slave rebellions started/held at a church; Consequence of religion: to create some sense of personal worth; also the ability to endure the unendurable by creating hope for the future; also it made some people want to rebel
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Union Church of Africans
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First church unaffiliated with other denominations
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Gabriel Posser 1800; Gabriel's Rebellion, Henrico County
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Lead slave revolt that was postponed because of a harsh storm/hurricane, and then betrayed by a slave
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Denmark Vesey "conjurer"
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1822- Charleston S.C. was supposed to have a revolt; "Gullah Jack" one of the conspirators, 9,000 involved; Vesey gave the conspirators charms to help them
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Amistad-Rebellion, off the coast of Cuba
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America had outlawed the slave laws; Cinque-finally returned to Africa but couldn't find his family
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Nat Turner "The Prophet"
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Rebellion in South Hampton, VA; his vision of white and black angels fighting in heaven; Aug. 21, 1831 death of 25 Whites and 200 Blacks; Nov. 11, 1831 He was sent to the Gallows for conspiracy
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Stono Rebellion Sept. 1839
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S.W. of Charleston; from Angolia; killed Mr. Hutchington by decapitating his head the cleared the guns out of his store; they felt if they stayed together they could run away; whites surrounded them and killed most; they were like the freedom fighters.
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Chattel Property/Slavery
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This made people look like property; justifies with some people how badly they could treat slaves because that is what they were doing.
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There were over 250 slave rebellions.
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During the Antebellum period, the number of slaves at UVA was more than the # of students here.
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Omar Ibn Said-slave
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Came to America Muslim; they called him uncle Moreau; his arabic writing showed a religious life among the slaves that the owners could not understand.
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Frederick Douglass
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Felt religion in the South was corrupted
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When muslims came
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there was no mosque; some converted to Christianity; some added elements to their religion
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Emerson Reading
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He says we all contribute to this racialization of society. White parents contribute by not discussing it with thier children
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How did African Americans become such a Christian People?
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Imaginative; death of African Gods; slavery: being beat and brainwashed; naturally spiritual people; they got a hold of the real christianity (Thurman)
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Cornell West
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"normative gaze"- look at the rest of the world and think they are better and the world is worse off; this is what makes people feel abnormal; The west secretes white supremacy
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