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The Negro church report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University : together with the proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868-1963 (Added Author). Atlanta University. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author). Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems 1903 : Atlanta University) (8th : (Added Author).

Summary: A sociological survey of black religion in the United States begins with a short description of primitive African religion, focusing on its nature worship and sorcery, and how Christian and Muslim incursions affected African religion and the disastrous effect of the African slave trade. The history of slavery and religion is followed by the struggles over the Christian legality of slavery, to restrictions of slaves in church attendance, to new educational efforts by such agencies as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The report then shifts focus to "current conditions." It charts churches in 1890 by denomination (Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.), African Union Methodist Protestant, Congregational Methodist, A.M.E. Zion, Colored Methodist Episcopal, Cumberland Presbyterian) and by state, reporting total church membership, number of congregations, and total value of church property. In addition, the report briefly covers other social issues, including the relation of the church to men and women, children, and ministers. Appended to the report is the program for the conference, along with the remarks of Washington Gladden, the keynote speaker, and a list of resolutions adopted by the conference.

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Physical Description: electronic resource
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Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

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General Note:	Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Meredith Evans. Text encoded by Meredith Evans and Jill Kuhn Sexton. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community. Title from electronic title page.
Original Version Note:	Transcribed from: The Negro church : report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University : together with the proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903. / edited by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois. Atlanta, Ga. : The Atlanta University Press, 1903. viii, 212 p. ; 24 cm. Includes index. "Select bibliography of Negro churches": pages vi-viii. "Studies of Negro problems ... The Atlanta University publications ... no. 8. The Negro Church"--Page 213.
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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