This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys Season 1

February. 02,2003 TV-PG

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Trailer Synopsis

The project demonstrated how men and women of color have been forced -- arguably more so than any other ethnic group in the U.S. to rise above their circumstances to flourish and prevail, guided by their unshakeable faith in a divine power (either one borne of their own African religions or one instilled in them by white society).

Episode 6 : Rise Up and Call Their Names

February. 07,2003

In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.

Episode 5 : Inheritors of the Faith

February. 06,2003

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

Episode 4 : Freedom Faith

February. 05,2003

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

Episode 3 : Guide My Feet

February. 04,2003

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

Episode 2 : God Is a Negro

February. 03,2003

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

Episode 1 : There Is a River

February. 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.