Subject Guides: Religion: African-American Religions

African American Religion

Public domain online texts relating to religious practices from regions across Africa and the African diaspora.

NOTE: Many of these texts are written from the perspectives of colonizers and contain racist characterizations, errors, and misinterpretations of culture.

The Chicago Defender
A Chicago-based African-American newspaper. Access to articles from 1905 - present.
A Religious Portrait of African-Americans
A 2009 Pew Research publication exploring religious affiliations, beliefs, and practices of African-Americans.
Encyclopedia of African American Society
This two-volume reference seeks to capture the ways in which the tenets and foundations of African American culture have given rise to today’s society.
Encyclopedia of Black Studies
Reference source for dynamic and innovative research on the Black experience. This encyclopedia deals with the emergence and maturity of an intellectual field over the past four decades.
Black Thought & Culture
Electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders.

Black Theology
Articles on issues of faith among Black people across the world.
Journal of Black Studies
Peer-reviewed dynamic, innovative, and creative research on the Black experience.