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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... leaders of the early church. The Apostle Paul boasts that most of the people in the churches he counseled at Corinth had no pretensions to noble birth or bearing: nevertheless they shall be judges in a divine tribunal at the end of the ...
... Leaders of the early-nineteenth-century American public school movement were Evangelical members of the clergy and the religious press readily published their advocacy.4 Just as Evangelical religion required that one have the experience ...
... leaders freed their slaves , and at the end of the decade the General Committee of Virginia Baptists issued an official condemnation of slavery , “ a violent deprivation of the rights of nature . ” 12 But local Baptist associations ...
... leader advised his church that slave preachers “should never be taken from among themselves,” because “the ... leaders of the American Revolu- tion championed universal literacy as a necessity for the advancement of democracy, and plans ...
... leader at the church , had inspired his fellow parishioners to violence by reading passages from the Bible.18 In the transcript of the testimony of the slave informant named Rolla , the Exodus story figures prominently at a meeting of ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |