The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 295 من الصفحات 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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... gospel ” takes its name from its obsession with biblical stories from the life of Jesus . Yet biblical phrases and motifs have been manifest in African- American life far beyond the boundaries that moderns have marked off with the word ...
... Gospel in the public square. The sermons of these preachers were always evocative expositions of the Bible, for Evangelicals insisted that the com- plete script of salvation had been inscribed in the pages of holy scripture. The two ...
... gospel according to St. John . And when I had read the whole chapter , the angel and the book were both gone in the twinkling of an eye , which astonished me very much , for the place was dark immediately ; being about four o'clock in ...
... Gospel of John . “ 47 Shaker Eldress and visionary Rebecca Cox Jackson , a free black woman who established and led a Shaker sisterhood in Philadelphia in 1857 , was illiterate until well into adulthood . Born in 1795 , she testified in ...
... Gospel in Foreign Parts . Neau published a catechism for “ instructing ” slaves in the ways of the Bible . Who gave you a master and a mistress ? God gave them to me . Who says that you must obey them? God says that THE POISON BOOK 31.
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |