This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys

2003

Seasons & Episodes

  • 1

EP1 There Is a River Feb 02, 2003

Explore the evolution of African-American religious thought, from the beliefs and rituals Africans brought to America to the influence of Christian teachings imposed on slaves in the new world.

EP2 God Is a Negro Feb 03, 2003

After Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm.

EP3 Guide My Feet Feb 04, 2003

Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.

EP4 Freedom Faith Feb 05, 2003

Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.

EP5 Inheritors of the Faith Feb 06, 2003

Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.

EP6 Rise Up and Call Their Names Feb 07, 2003

In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.
5.5| 0h30m| TV-PG| en| More Info
Released: 02 February 2003 Ended
Producted By: ITVS
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/
Synopsis

Celebrate the triumph of the African-American religious experience through the last three centuries. From the arrival of the early African slaves through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Era, and into the 21st Century, explore the epic struggle of a people whose faith was continually tested, and how that faith became a force for social change that helped transform America socially, politically and culturally.

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