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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... Heimert and her colleagues at Yale University Press for finding merit in this book that, judging from my sheaf of rejection letters, others did not. Finally, I owe an inestimable debt of gratitude to my ix Acknowledgments.
... letters formed the following mysterious sounds: “fas chapta o jon / inde be ginnen wasde wad / and wad was wid god / ande wad was god.” Hodgson puzzled over the unintelligible text until, sounding it out phonetically, he realized that ...
... letters, and by the strange religion of Evangelical Protestantism. It is at the collision of the Great Awakening and the Peculiar Institution in colonial America that African Americans became literate and, subsequently, literary. London ...
... letters. “No one on the place was taught to read or write,” recalled former slave Silas Jackson. “On Sunday the slaves who wanted to worship would gather at one of the large cabins with one of the overseers present and have their church ...
... letter Some slaves became preachers in spite of illiteracy, and their rhetorical prowess came to be the stu¤ of legend. A former slave recounted the following story he had heard about an illiterate slave preacher. We all went to church ...
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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 |