Black Religion In America

While religion refers to a community sharing similar beliefs and the text and rituals connecting them to said religion, faith rather refers to the seeking of answers one hopes to find in practicing a religion, regarding ones purpose or meaning in life. Thus, Black religion I believe is the religious and spiritual practices of people of African descent all around the world, it isn’t just the act of going to church but rather every aspect the religion reaches in individual’s everyday life as well as the community as a whole. The black church and black religion are not synonymous, however. As stated before Black religion describes the practice of people all around the world and with such one would be wrong to assume all black religions are based in a church like institution.
Black religion in America has a strong basis in racism. African heritage, and the Black Sacred Cosmos, were very influential in the Americas. The Middle …show more content…
As “bodiless souls” as long as they continued to live a Christian life, the Christian thing being to obey their masters, then they would be released of all your pain and misfortune in death and still go to heaven and finally be “free”. Rather than parallel white Christians however, black Christians created their own religious culture that was built emphasizing different cultural views. Views that drew from the Sacred Black Cosmos and African heritage as well as Christianity.
My views on Black religion in America hasn’t changed much but I do find increased comfort and solace in the fact that the Black community didn’t lose their heritage entirely in the mass enslavement and some of the traditions of the Sacred Black Cosmos are reflected in the practice of Christianity by blacks still