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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... becomes by turns a mercenary , a murderer , and a Peeping Tom . His dynasty is a disaster , and the nation over which ... become ancient Israel's dustbin of history . The biblical penchant for bringing peripheral people to the center of ...
... become the winners. African slaves and their descendants discerned something in the Bible that was neither at the center of their ancestral cultures nor in evidence in their hostile American home: a warrant for justice in this world ...
... become Louisi- ana and Florida , Spanish ships brought many Catholic Angolan slaves : Catholicism had been the official religion of the Congo kingdom since the sixteenth century , when it had been adopted in the royal court after ...
... becoming Baptists . " 11 The Anglican establishment persecuted Baptist Evangelists and as- sociated them with sedition and disorder . An anti - Baptist petition to the Virginia assembly of 1777 warned that “ there have been nightly ...
... become biblically articulate without the benefit of 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 ...
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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 |