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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... religion. Leaders of the early-nineteenth-century American public school movement were Evangelical members of the clergy and the religious press readily published their advocacy.4 Just as Evangelical religion required that one have the ...
... religion. This is not to suggest that anything like a majority of American slaves were Evangelical Christians or Christians of any kind. As late as the mid-nineteenth century Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, Richard Allen, and ...
... religion still occurred . The Baptists are especially important in the collec- tive religious history of African Americans because the denominational change of direction on the question of slavery is most starkly documented among them ...
... religion that Evangelicals challenged antiliteracy slave codes by teaching converted slaves how to read. Following the Revolutionary War, Evangelical Christians established so-called Sabbath Schools for the instruction of African ...
... religion was not repressed altogether , planters subsidized white missionaries to take the teeth out of Evangelical religion . The master class would learn from the Christian slave revolts of the first third of the nineteenth century ...
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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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