The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 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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... looked on the word, I began to read. And when I found I was reading, I was frightened — then I could not read one word. I closed my eyes again in prayer and opened my eyes, began to read. “So I done,” Cox writes, “until I read the ...
... looked out over Christendom, that this was what Christendom e¤ectively believed. It was certainly the way it behaved.”44 African Americans would continue to struggle, even in their own minds, with the 38 the poison book.
... looked forward to was figured in the Bible. The hypocrisy that provoked astonishment in some slaves provoked atheism in others. African Methodist Episcopal (AME) bishop Daniel Alexander Paine observed in the late 1830s that he knew ...
... looked toward the end of the age with certainty and anxiety. Divine judgment could even cleave through the faithful and drive a wedge between saints and sinners on the same pew. Though they singers expected that they would not fall ...
... looked forward to a day when the written law of God — the Bible of the ancient Israelites — would be done away with altogether, no longer written in a book but permanently written on the human heart. God promises, “I will make a new ...
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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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