Why are African-American and White-American churches so different?
It goes back to Africa In Europe, Christianity and the Church was a highly institutionalised, structured and stiff organisation, and was as much political as it was religious. Church in Europe was more solemn and was essentially just used as a means of continuously guilting the peasants into contributing millions into projects which strengthened the clergy. Church was quite impersonal, with catholics recieving mass in a language they didnt even speak (Latin) and many protestant denominations using hellfire and brimstone as a means of submitting their population to strict religious rules. In Africa, on the other hand, religious celebration was FAR more involved. There was dancing, singing, etc. It was as much a social affair as it was a religious one and thus from a western perspective it was WAYYY more fun. When African slaves were brought to the new world they were stripped of their religion but not their practices of worship. Even as newly baptised christians, Blacks around the Weste
