The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 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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African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan. Finally, I owe an inestimable debt of gratitude to my friend ... biblical figures Nehemiah and Ezekiel and in a lecture on the biblical imagery of Babylon that I delivered in Cuba in ...
... biblical text is unthinkable . The Bible's impact on the African - American imagination also has been broad and varied in the arts . Negro spirituals , that great corpus of African - American sacred music , are shot through with biblical ...
... biblical words and deeds. The Bible has been available to African Americans as no other litera- ture. “Biblical imagery was used because it was at hand,” writes historian of religion Charles Long. “It was adapted to and invested with ...
African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan. quilts with appliqué figures from the Bible instead of the symbols and icons of ancient myths that their African ancestors had wrought in cloth with the same techniques . As ...
... Bible as strangers in a strange land of slavery , through the strange language of English letters , and by the strange religion of Evangelical Protestantism . It is at the collision of the Great Awakening and the Peculiar Institution in ...
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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 Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |