Freedom from Heaven: State Violence and Religious Protest in the Early Black Atlantic

From the beginning of European colonialism in the New World, Africans and people of African descent used religious language and ideology to protest the interlocking of religion, the state, and slavery. Throughout the Americas, slavery was built on a legal superstructure undergirded by imperial, nati...

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Subtitles:Black Lives Matter? Africana Religious Responses to State Violence
Main Author: Sensbach, Jon (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2015]
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 4, Pages: 495-503
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B The Americas / Slavery / Institutioneller Rassismus / Resistance / Religion / History 1700-1865
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CH Christianity and Society
FD Contextual theology
KBP America
NBE Anthropology
NCC Social ethics
NCD Political ethics
TJ Modern history
XA Law
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