Woods, an African American former priest, had given up this calling due to racial bigotry he encountered within the Catholic Church in Mississippi. Woods, who became one of his primary influences while growing up. When Raboteau was 4 years old, his mother married Royal L. After his father’s killer claimed self-defense and was never prosecuted, Raboteau’s mother, Mabel, a domestic worker, moved her family first to Ann Arbor, Michigan, then later to Pasadena, California, in an effort to escape Jim Crow. Louis Bay, Mississippi in 1943, just three months after his father had been murdered by a white man. His meticulous research and publications, anchored in the voices and historical documents of African Americans, dispel negative assumptions about the practice of African American religions being corruptions of European religious practices.Īlbert Jordy Raboteau was born in St. Raboteau II was a founder of African American religious studies.
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