1. History of the African American Religious Experience: Introduction
Presented by:
Wilfred Graves Jr., PhD
March 28, 2017

2. Kurt Carr (b. October 12, 1961)

3. “For Every Mountain” For every mountain you brought me over,
For every trial you’ve seen me through,
For every blessing,
Hallelujah, for this I give You praise.
Artist: Kurt Carr
Song: “For Every Mountain”
Released: 1999

4. African-American Religion
Editors: Fulop and Raboteau Summary: The book provides “an obvious entry point for persons seeking an initial orientation into the field [of African-American Religion].”

5. If It Wasn’t For the Women
Author: Gilkes Summary: This collection of essays focuses on the significant work of black women in their churches and communities.

6. Slave Religion
Author: Raboteau Summary: African-Americans developed independent arenas in which to understand, experience and express their religious commitments. They did not simply accept the degraded Christianity of slaveholders. They often embraced liberationist themes inherent in biblical narratives.

7. African American Religious History
Author: Sernett Summary: This work is a collection of selected literary pieces detailing the contributions of African-American women and men from the colonial period through the latter twentieth century.

8. Black Religion and Black Radicalism
Author: Wilmore Summary: This is a classic treatment of African American religious history.

9. Virginia Slave Codes (1705)
“All servants imported and brought into the Country…who were not Christians in their native Country…shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion…shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resists his master…correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction…the master shall be free of all punishment…as if such accident never happened (1705 Laws of Virginia: Chapter XLIX).”

10. W.E.B. Du Bois ( )
First African American to graduate from Harvard (1895)
The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
One of the cofounders of the NAACP (1909)

11. Carter G. Woodson ( )
Second African American to graduate from Harvard (1912)
Known as the father of African-American history
Pioneered the celebration of “Negro History Week”

12. Howard Thurman ( )
Author, educator, theologian, civil rights leader
Influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Wrote Jesus and the Disinherited (1949)

13. James Cone (b. 1938)

14. Albert Raboteau (b. 1943)

15. Henry H. Mitchell (b. 1919)