关键词：
SLAVERY
AFRICAN American religions
NONFICTION
RELIGIOUS aspects
摘要：
Plantation Church is organized in six chapters: “Migration, Displacement, Resistance,” “The Memory of Africa,” “Black Church Experience South of the Border,” “The Plantation Church,” “The Making of the [End Page 498] Black World,” and “Toward a Creolized Ecclesiology.” Throughout these chapters, Noel Leo Erskine endeavors to explore the question of the structural, psychological, and cultural factors presiding over the birth, theological orientation, and roles of the black church during slavery. According to the author, and as suggested by the subtitle, a full comprehension of this institution requires that one probe into the Caribbean context, for it is there that the black church began, for two primary reasons. First, many enslaved Africans were brought there prior to being deported to the North American mainland; and second, unlike in North America, Africans constituted the overwhelming numerical majority of the population there as well—which explains the greater degree of African retentions and practices still observable in the Caribbean and the unmistakable Africanness of the black church in the beginning. As time went on, though, this early Africanness would progressively become less pronounced, and be replaced with a creolized identity, characterized, among other things, by the worship of Jesus, rather than African deities. The book opens with Erskine introducing himself and his project in the preface as well as the introduction. The author identifies himself as a pastor of Jamaican ancestry, with a grandfather whose parents had been enslaved and who venerated African divinities, while the author’s parents “chose” to worship Jesus instead, a path obviously followed by the author himself. This highlights from the onset the main and highly personal articulation of the whole book: the exploration of the origins, manifestations, and possible resolution of the tension between African consciousness and slave consciousness, the latter being shaped by Christianity dur
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