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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... United States.”23 For forty years until the outbreak of the Civil War, Episcopal missionary Alexander Glennie consistently preached a form of Pauline Christianity featuring this verse to his slave communicants. “Servants, be obedient to ...
... insur- rection. Blake secretly organizes slaves in both countries to foil Southern expansionists who want to make Cuba a Caribbean extension of the slave regime in the United States . Blake surveys the religious 46 the good book.
African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan. regime in the United States . Blake surveys the religious affiliations of his co - conspirators and explains that his newfound religion of revolt is written in the hearts of the ...
... United States is geographically the farthest of all New World slave societies from western Africa, and slaves arriving from Africa in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century cost thirty times their purchase price on the African ...
... United States by a second , transcontinental Middle Passage . " At the end of the eighteenth century the transatlantic slave trade was being supplanted by the internal trade in slaves from the Northern states and the states of the Upper ...
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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 |