The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 295 páginas A striking narrative of the Bible’s central role in African-American history from the early days of slavery to the present The Talking Book casts the Bible as the central character in a vivid portrait of black America, tracing the origins of African-American culture from slavery’s secluded forest prayer meetings to the bright lights and bold style of today’s hip-hop artists. The Bible has profoundly influenced African Americans throughout history. From a variety of perspectives this wide-ranging book is the first to explore the Bible’s role in the triumph of the black experience. Using the Bible as a foundation, African Americans shared religious beliefs, created their own music, and shaped the ultimate key to their freedom—literacy. Allen Callahan highlights the intersection of biblical images with African-American music, politics, religion, art, and literature. The author tells a moving story of a biblically informed African-American culture, identifying four major biblical images—Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia, and Emmanuel. He brings these themes to life in a unique African-American history that grows from the harsh experience of slavery into a rich culture that endures as one of the most important forces of twenty-first-century America. |
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African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan. PROLOGUE AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE THE children of slavery in America . And the Bible , as no other book , is the book of slavery's children . The evidence is everywhere in African ...
... African- American urban youth, and the figure of Jesus inhabits what poet ... slaves took in hand what was at hand and impressed it into the service of ... slaves did not read the Bible through, or even over and against, the traditions ...
... African slaves and their descendants discerned something in the Bible that was neither at the center of their ancestral cultures nor in evidence in their hostile American home: a warrant for justice in this world. They found woven in ...
... African Americans first encountered the Bible as strangers in a strange land of slavery , through the strange ... slaves were , like London , literate Muslims . Many others claimed ancestral faiths without Holy Writ . But even those African ...
... slaves. Before the beginning of the eighteenth century, few slaves professed Christianity, and those who did often ... African slaves. Slaves in significant numbers came under the influence of Christianity in the British colonies and ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |
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The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |