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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... biblical interpretation. The chapter on Exile elaborates on thinking reflected in essays I wrote treating the biblical figures Nehemiah and Ezekiel and in a lecture on the biblical imagery of Babylon that I delivered in Cuba in the ...
... biblical allusions, and the genre of African-American music called “gospel” takes its name from its obsession with biblical stories from the life of Jesus. Yet biblical phrases and motifs have been manifest in African- American life far ...
... biblical folklore to American belles lettres. Biblical interpretation is a veritable subgenre in the Hip-Hop music of African-American urban youth, and the figure of Jesus inhabits what poet Sonia Sanchez has called “a theological space ...
... biblical penchant for bringing peripheral people to the center of history continues con brio in the New Testament. The Savior of the world hails from the jerkwater of Nazareth with a band of country bumpkins in tow. A few of those ...
... biblical literacy was so important to Evangelical religion that Evangelicals challenged antiliteracy slave codes by teaching converted slaves how to read. Following the Revolutionary War, Evangelical Christians established so-called ...
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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 |