The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 2008. okt. 1. - 295 oldal 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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... South by bringing unprecedented numbers of slaves into membership in the church and by introducing even larger numbers to at least the rudiments of Christianity.”9 And though Baptists and Methodists would later be divided over abolition ...
... South Carolina, was a congregation of black Methodists founded in 1818 after several thousand blacks had withdrawn their memberships from white Methodist churches in Charleston following a dispute over a segregated burial ground. It ...
... South Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana all enacted legislation making the education of slaves punishable by fine or imprisonment and completely prohibiting unsupervised slave gatherings and slave preaching.27 During a legislative debate ...
... South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. At Christmas the slaves on Hilton Head Island invited her to preach for them. After her sermon, of which, she was convinced, her audience “understood very little,” the congregation ...
... schools, night schools, and Sunday schools across the South after the end of the Civil War, Booker T. Washington noted, “The great ambition of the older people was to try to learn to read the Bible before they died. With the talking book ...
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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 Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2006 |
The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2006 |