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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... claim to expertise in biblical studies, Americanists and ethnomusicologists, art historians and literary critics may read me as a dilettante. So be it. The French psycho- analyst Jacques Lacan once wrote in defense of his own eclectic ...
... claims , " I have not been able to read any book , nor any reading whatever , but such as contain the word of God . " 46 African - American claims to miraculous literacy continued into the nineteenth century . George Washington Dupree ...
... them.5 It was on the basis of biblical claims that the erstwhile master of John Jea, a slave in eighteenth-century Dutch New York manumitted following his public confession of the Christian faith , sought to the poison book 23.
... claiming that all Africans were the children of Cain was to claim every African was the seed of the first fratricide . This claim is “a stupid saying,” writes the abolitionist clergyman James Pennington in 26 THE POISON BOOK.
... claiming Ham's descendants as bearing an intergenerational curse of slavery. As early as ancient rabbinical com- mentary, Noah's son Ham and his progeny were condemned to slavery either because Ham had disrespected his drunken father or ...
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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 |