The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 1 okt. 2008 - 295 sidor 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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... Negro spirituals , that great corpus of African - American sacred music , are shot through with biblical allusions , and the genre of African - American music called “ gospel ” takes its name from its obsession with biblical stories ...
African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan. influence of ... black countenances eagerly attentive to every word they hear, frequently bathed in ... spiritual equality. And as egalitarian relations became the proclaimed ideal ...
African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan. novelist Ralph Ellison ... African - American illiteracy is most lucid where African - American ... spiritual insight but neverthe- less regrets her own illiteracy and “ wished ...
... Negro spiritual . In this way the " black and unknown bards , " as James Weldon Johnson called them , set a precedent for talking back to the Bible , using its own words to sharpen their pointed ripostes . African Americans found the ...
African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan. consolation in knowing that God is just and will not let the ... Negro spirituals had to meet the requirements of Evangelical Christian deportment: I want to be ready I want to be ...
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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 Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2006 |