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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... Western civilization to read original sin in the book of Genesis, but their vernacular traditions suggest that ... West African gesture used by a queen mother to remind others of her matriarchal authority. But unlike Michelangelo's ...
... West Africa , pleaded : “ O , ye nominal Christians ! might not an African ask you , learned you this from your God ? who says unto you , Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you . Is it not enough that we are torn from our ...
... Western Hemisphere . The story of the Exodus has been the most influential of all biblical narratives among American slaves , who came to see divine worship as unfettered service to the God who had liberated Hebrew slaves en masse from ...
... West Africa , the native region of most of the African slaves , has been estimated as about eleven million people at the beginning of the sixteenth century , increasing to about twenty million at the beginning of the nineteenth century ...
... West African coast was labor inten- sive, financially risky, and dangerous. African resistance to enslavement could be fierce, even lethal.7 By the sixteenth century the Portuguese and other Europeans were buying and selling slaves from ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |