Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American FictionLSU Press, 2006 - 264 עמודים "This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature |
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... experience, just as the Bible does, and encompasses the personal need to do what is necessary—good, bad, and indeterminate—to survive and accomplish goals. Biblical grace is a practical doctrine relating to personal and individual ...
... experience in African American culture. As my analysis shows, voodoo “faith” has potentially innumerable connections to the biblical and is inseparable from it, in spite of voodoo's relative obfuscation. The African American imagination ...
... experience directly and indirectly connected to the racial. Yet in voodoo/hoodoo culture it is the belief in African-derived gods and spirits that relate syncretically to Christianity and to oppression and life in similar direct and ...
... experience and in individuals' attempts to fulfill their needs. Black writers before 1937 seldom deny the existence or importance of God: “It is tremendously revealing to note that Negro 'classical' writers have, for the most part ...
... experience” (3). African American religion is “the interplay of African-derived practices with EuroChristian sources and traditions” (3–4). Biblical belief becomes transformed to a sustaining faithful vision that is as much constituted ...
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03 Critiquing Christian Belief | 77 |
04 Rejecting God and Redefining Faith | 118 |
05 Reshaping and Radicalizing Faith | 156 |
Fiction Life and Faitful Vision | 197 |
Notes | 205 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 245 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in ... <span dir=ltr>James W. Coleman</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2009 |