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Changing Faces of 21st Century Black Churches and Politics

February 11, 2022February 10, 2022 Nicole Myers Turner #PewResearchForum, Black church, black politics, Black Religion, Black Theology, Preacher

*This post is part of our online forum with the Pew Research Center. The February 2021 Pew report, “Faith among

Black Christian Faith: Perennial Decline, Respectability, and “the back of the church”

February 10, 2022February 9, 2022 Vaughn A. Booker #PewResearchForum, Black church, Black Protestantism, Black Religion, Humor, religion

In the wake of Black religious affiliation surveys, Afro-Protestants have often implored religious institutions (churches, denominations, colleges, associations, conventions, seminaries)

Online Forum with Pew Research on Black Religious Affiliation

February 9, 2022February 8, 2022 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #PewResearchForum, race, religion

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society, is collaborating with the Pew Research Center to

Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?

October 21, 2021October 20, 2021 Bright Alozie africa, Cosmology, Gender, LGBT, sexuality, spirituality

Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,

In Memory of Professor Raboteau

October 1, 2021September 29, 2021 Celeste Henery black intellectual history, religion

Dr. Albert J. Raboteau II died on September 18, 2021. He was the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion Emeritus