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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... masters in the divine image and likeness. The Apostle Paul had de- clared that master and slave were equal in God's sight. And in the book of Exodus God had freed the ancient Hebrews from bondage in Egypt: the liberation of slaves had ...
... masters helped to secure for them a compensatory , beatific afterlife . " The State of your Negroes in this World , must be low , and mean , and abject ; a State of Servitude . No Great Things in this World can be done for them ...
... master class in general and the Southern planter class in particular remained indifferent at best and often openly hostile to the religious instruction of slaves. Before the beginning of the eighteenth century, few slaves professed ...
... masters , which have produced very bad consequences . In the 1780s several Baptist leaders freed their slaves , and at the end of the decade the General Committee of Virginia Baptists issued an official condemnation of slavery , “ a ...
... masters whatso- ever.”13 Some white Evangelicals balked at the notion of a black pastorate: a Presbyterian leader advised his church that slave preachers “should never be taken from among themselves,” because “the circumstances preclude ...
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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 |