本人通过对小说中基督教教会主题的梳理,探讨了黑人在追寻身份认同的主体诉求,对白人主流文化之基督文化的内化成为黑人融入美国白人主流社会的必经之路,黑人主体如何构建其自身宗教文化又不迷失黑人民族性将是本文的主要话题。《向苍天呼吁》是美国黑人作家詹姆斯·鲍德温的成名作,也是一部带有自传色彩的小说,笔者认为美国黑人作家笔下所展现的黑人宗教是其构 Through a review of the theme of the Christian Church in the novel, I explore the subjective demands of blacks in pursuit of identity. The internalization of the Christian culture of the mainstream white culture becomes the only way for the blacks to integrate into the white mainstream American society. Our religious culture will not lose the black ethnicity will be the main topic of this article. The appeal to heaven is a famous masterpiece of African American writer James Baldwin and a novel with autobiographical features. The author believes that the black religion shown by the African American writers is its structure