“Filled to Overflowing”

Abstract

This chapter begins by showing that in a geographically diverse array of black weekly newspapers, both proponents and opponents of fundamentalism considered it to be a major religious influence inside the black community. While this in itself highlights the need to seriously examine the nature and character of fundamentalist manifestations in the black community, the chapter goes on to illuminate persistent theological concerns in these newspapers’ discussions of fundamentalism, including supernaturalism, divine creationism, and biblical literalism, and to explore ways that these newspapers’ discussions also incorporated issues of race and racism.