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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... slaves and their descendants have taken the texts of the Bible in every sense of the word : embraced them , endured them , seized them , stolen them , caught them , and captured them . African - American politicians have always flavored ...
... slave.” In so doing, the slaves took in hand what was at hand and impressed it into the service of forming the collective imagination, the cultural task of any people if they are to survive. As literary critic and novel- ist Albert ...
... slaves. African- Americans were taking texts of the Bible and reaching their own conclusions. The God of holy scripture had made slaves no less than their masters in the divine image and likeness. The Apostle Paul had de- clared that ...
... slaves were , like London , literate Muslims . Many others claimed ancestral faiths without Holy Writ . But even those African slaves who came to the New World as Christians had yet to read the Bible for themselves . Into what was to ...
... slavery as divinely ordained, and those texts were heard but rarely read by the slave: many colonists and virtually all slaves were illiterate. This status quo was challenged by Evangelicalism, that enthusiastic, intensely personal ...
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21 | |
3 The Good Book | 41 |
4 Exile | 49 |
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 |