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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... churches , of course , where preaching is a venerable art form with all the virtuosity and inventiveness of jazz , a sermon not based on a biblical text is unthinkable . The Bible's impact on the African - American imagination also has ...
... church. The Apostle Paul boasts that most of the people in the churches he counseled at Corinth had no pretensions to noble birth or bearing: nevertheless they shall be judges in a divine tribunal at the end of the age. Later in a ...
... church nor the chapel but the crowd: the bigger the crowd the better, for all needed to hear the message of eternal salvation. In the crowds that came to hear them, Evangelical preachers noted the sizeable presence of African slaves ...
... church had offended slaves and caused them to boycott Mass and take up reading the Protestant Bible.8 It was in this spiritually charged ambient that African Americans began to hear the Bible speak to them. reading, writing, and ...
... church and by introducing even larger numbers to at least the rudiments of Christianity . " And though Baptists and Methodists would later be divided over abolition , the aggressive proselytizing of these two denominations would reap a ...
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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 Pré-visualização indisponível - 2006 |