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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... Promised Land. In the 1930s, littérateurs of the Harlem Renaissance brought black biblical folklore to American belles lettres. Biblical interpretation is a veritable subgenre in the Hip-Hop music of African- American urban youth, and ...
... promised African Americans more opportunities for direct participation than any other denomination.1o Developments in the piety , practice , and polity of the Virginian Bap- tists is especially indicative of how Evangelicalism was ...
... are your masters . . . as unto Christ . ' Then he would go on to show how it was God's will that we were slaves and how , if we were good and happy slaves , God would bless us. I promised my Maker that if THE POISON BOOK 33.
African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan. God would bless us. I promised my Maker that if I ever learned to read and if freedom ever came, I would not read that part of the Bible.27 Nevertheless, some African Americans ...
... promises , African Americans would remain marked by the legacy of the Bible's maledictions , which could be neither recalled nor revoked . In The Fire Next Time ... , James Baldwin chronicles what he calls " the slow crumbling of my ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |