Rise Up and Call Their Names
This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys - S1 - E6
In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.
This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys: Season 1 - 6 Episode s
1x1 - There Is a River
February 2, 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.
1x2 - God Is a Negro
February 3, 2003
After Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm.
1x3 - Guide My Feet
February 4, 2003
Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.
1x4 - Freedom Faith
February 5, 2003
Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
1x5 - Inheritors of the Faith
February 6, 2003
Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.
1x6 - Rise Up and Call Their Names
February 7, 2003
In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.