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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... Religious aspects — Christianity — History. 4. African Americans — Religion. I. Title. bs521.2.c35 2006 220.089′96073 — dc22 2006006464 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in this book meets ...
... religion. Randall Burkett of Emory University, Professors Harvey Cox and Jon Levenson of the Harvard Divinity School, and Professor Anthony Pinn of Rice University carefully reviewed chapters in draft and proposed important suggestions ...
... religion. In traditional parlance still used in some African- American churches, what preachers do with the Bible in their sermons is spoken of as “taking a text.” American slaves and their descendants have taken the texts of the Bible ...
... religion Charles Long. “It was adapted to and invested with the experience of the 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 ...
... religion of Evangelical Protestantism. It is at the collision of the Great Awakening and the Peculiar Institution in colonial America that African Americans became literate and, subsequently, literary. London, an African in America and ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |