Abstract
As I use the term, Black Religion is a discursive artifact that emerged from the tumult of the black freedom movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. As an academic term of art, a “covering term,” I regard Black Religion as a proper name, hence the capitalization. Black Religion is part of a cultural shift in which people of African descent began referring to themselves as “black” and “Afro-American.” This same shift produced the black arts movement in the mid-1960s and the black studies movement in the late 1960s.
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Black Subject Black Identity Black Feminist American Religion Black Life
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