African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures

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Vincent L. Wimbush
Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1 בספט׳ 2012 - 912 עמודים
Perhaps no other group of people has been as much formed by biblical texts and tropes as African Americans. From literature and the arts to popular culture and everyday life, the Bible courses through black society and culture like blood through veins. Despite the enormous recent interest in African American religion, relatively little attention has been paid to the diversity of ways in which African Americans have utilized the Bible. African Americans and the Bible is the fruit of a four-year collaborative research project directed by Vincent L. Wimbush and funded by the Lilly Endowment. It brings together scholars and experts (sixty-eight in all) from a wide range of academic and artistic fields and disciplines--including ethnography, cultural history, and biblical studies as well as art, music, film, dance, drama, and literature. The focus is on the interaction between the people known as African Americans and that complex of visions, rhetorics, and ideologies known as the Bible. As such, the book is less about the meaning(s) of the Bible than about the Bible and meaning(s), less about the world(s) of the Bible than about how worlds and the Bible interact--in short, about how a text constructs a people and a people constructs a text. It is about a particular sociocultural formation but also about the dynamics that obtain in the interrelation between any group of people and sacred texts in general. Thus African Americans and the Bible provides an exemplum of sociocultural formation and a critical lens through which the process of sociocultural formation can be viewed.
 

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Reading Darkness Reading Scriptures
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Part
34
PRETEXTS
45
The Study of the Bible as SocioCultural Hermeneutics
83
African American Social Cultural Formation the Bible
111
The Bible as Informant and Reflector in SocialStructural
123
Liberating Biblical Studies
138
An Ethnography of African Indigenous Religious
163
How African American Folk Oratory
514
Hamer King and the Bible
537
Biblical Metaphor in Spirituals Gospel Lyrics
546
The Rastafari as a
558
The Bible in a Congregation
577
African Americans the Bible and Spiritual Formation
588
The African American Catholic Community and the Bible
616
The Bible and Catholic Evangelization
650

The Bible and African American Poetry
205
On Genesis and Exodus
221
Origins of African American Biblical Hermeneutics in
236
Or Formation of Self and WorldsinMarronage
319
Through the Prism
342
NineteenthCentury Black Religious Women
355
The Bible in the Educational Philosophies of Fanny Jackson Coppin
404
Orishatukeh Faduma and
418
The Bible and the Aesthetics of Sacred Space in TwentiethCentury
433
The Great Migration and the Bible
448
African American Gospel Music
464
W E B Du Bois Revisited
501
Academic Biblical Interpretation among African Americans
696
Spiritual Apprehension in August Wilsons
743
Adventures of a Black Child in Search of Her God
773
Masculinity and the Use of the Bible in Rap Music
804
It Should Be a Black and a Church Thing
819
Its Not Just a Christian Thing
828
Some Things about It Are Disturbing
835
Ultimately Its Not a Change of Color
849
Index of Scripture References
857
Index of Subjects
870
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Vincent L. Wimbush, PhD, Harvard University, is Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures at the Claremont Graduate University.

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