The contemporary African American situation, argues Carlyle Fielding Stewart, is not merely an experience of racial oppression and devastating discrimination. At the roots of African American Christian life is a powerful force of soul, a dynamic spirituality that provides joy and hope. This has allowed the survival of African Americans in the midst of a hostile and sometimes brutal culture; even more, this spirituality has empowered African Americans in a celebration of life that can transform culture and establish a new kind of freedom.
Highly accessible and enormously practical, Soul Survivors offers a paradigm of spiritual freedom for all peoples in their struggle for liberation from the world's shackles.