African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social TexturesVincent L. Wimbush Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2012 M09 1 - 912 pages 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. |
Contents
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The Study of the Bible as SocioCultural Hermeneutics | 83 |
The Role of the Bible and Other Sacred Texts in African American | 92 |
African Americans and American Biblical Hermeneutics | 103 |
African American Social Cultural Formation the Bible | 111 |
The Bible as Informant and Reflector in SocialStructural | 123 |
Liberating Biblical Studies | 138 |
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 |
A Way Out of No Way The Bible and Catholic Evangelization | 650 |
An Ethnography of African Indigenous Religious | 163 |
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 WorldsinMartonage | 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 |
The Bible and African American Folklore | 673 |
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 |
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