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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... colonies to accept their lot as God's will. In the British colonies of mid-Atlantic North America, both the Puritans and the Anglicans made modest attempts to introduce slaves to Christianity throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
... colonists and virtually all slaves were illiterate. This status quo was challenged by Evangelicalism, that ... colonies — and later the states and territories of the new nation — inviting their hearers to the remission of their sins ...
African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan. influence of Christianity in the British colonies and were thus introduced to the Bible through the mass Evangelicalism of the Great Awakening of the 1740s. Traveling through Hanover ...
... Colonies (1766), Anthony Benezet recalled Quaker founder George Fox's message to the slaveholders of Barbados almost a century earlier: “Consider with yourselves if you were in the same condition as the blacks are, who came strangers to ...
... colony, a Presbyterian, and Placido is a believer in the Swe- denborgian doctrines. We have all agreed to know no sects, no denomination, and but one religion for the sake of our redemption from bondage and degradation, a faith in a ...
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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 |