African American Religious History: Religion in the South

A guide for conducting research on African American religious history at the Yale Divinity Library.

Religion in the South

Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the U.S. South (Online) by Charles Reagan Wilson Explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness.
Religion in the American South: Protestants and Others in History and Culture by Beth Barton Schweiger (Editor); Donald G. Mathews (Editor) Examines religion in the American South across three centuries--from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Includes several essays on religion in African American churches.
To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of the Southern Folk (Online) by Jamil W. Drake A history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era.
Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900 by William E. Montgomery A social history of the black church in the South from 1865 to 1900.