Dark Symbols, Obscure Signs
Author | : Riggins Renal Earl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780598029423 |
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Author | : Riggins Renal Earl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780598029423 |
Author | : Riggins Renal Earl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This probing work examines how African-American slaves, through their appropriation of Christianity, found a resource that affirmed their sense of self-worth and identity, and a spirit of community that offered psychological and spiritual resistance to oppression. White evangelists extolled the benefits of converting slaves to Christianity, but the slaves discovered in the Bible a different message, shared among themselves in "dark symbols and obscure signs".
Author | : Riggins Renal Earl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This probing work examines how African-American slaves, through their appropriation of Christianity, found a resource that affirmed their sense of self-worth and identity, and a spirit of community that offered psychological and spiritual resistance to oppression. White evangelists extolled the benefits of converting slaves to Christianity, but the slaves discovered in the Bible a different message, shared among themselves in "dark symbols and obscure signs".
Author | : Riggins Renal Earl |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2001-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1563383586 |
Although Henry Louis Gates examined the ways in which African slave language formed the metaphors for African American poetry and fiction in The Signifying Monkey, there have been no studies of the theological and ethical significance of the salutations of black Americans until now. In Dark Salutations, Riggins Earl examines black American's ethnocentric verbalized salutary expressions-"brotherman" and "sistergirl," for example-that dominate their ritualistic moments of social encounter. The noticeable religious content of some of these salutations drives us to examine blacks' understandings of God and brother/sisterhood challenges: Is God a respecter of persons? Or, have black people understood God to be "faithfully for them and with them" politically and spiritually? Have black people understood themselves to be "trustfully for and with" each other spiritually and politically? Have black people understood themselves to be "trustfully for and with" even the whites who oppressed them? Earl argues that these salutary expressions show how blacks have lived with the burdensome challenge of having to prove their sisterly and brotherly capacities, and with the insatiable desire to be treated as equal siblings in the family of God. .
Author | : Albert J. Wheeler |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781594544798 |
Of all mankinds' vices, racism is one of the most pervasive and stubborn. Success in overcoming racism has been achieved from time to time, but victories have been limited thus far because mankind has focused on personal economic gain or power grabs ignoring generosity of the soul. This bibliography brings together the literature.
Author | : Cleophus James LaRue |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780664258474 |
LaRue provides important insights on why black preaching is strong and active, and connects with the real-life experiences of listeners. (Christian)
Author | : Frederick L. Ware |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2008-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1556357362 |
Frederick L. Ware provides a classification and criticism of methodological perspectives in the academic study, interpretation, and construction of black theology in the U.S. from 1969 to the present, and establishes and recognizes three different schools of academic black theology: The Black Hermeneutical School The Black Philosophical School The Human Sciences School Similarities and differences are delineated in the identification of each school's representative thinkers and their views on the tasks, content, sources, norm, method, and goals of black theology.
Author | : Valérie Croisille |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1527577546 |
This book concentrates on six neo-slave narratives written by late 20th and early 21st century black American women: Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Gayl Jones’ Corregidora, Joan California Cooper’s Family, and Athena Lark’s Avenue of Palms. It explores the process of re(-)membering of the black female characters in these novels, and shows how these authors manage to both write the transgenerational trauma of slavery and write through it, enabling black American women’s voices to be heard. This analysis of famous classics, as well as less-known books, demonstrates how black American women’s traumatic memory of slavery is inscribed in a transgenerational black female body. Conjuring up questions of narratology and intertextuality, it highlights how working-through takes the form of a narrativization of this traumatic memory by diverse means. This book also reflects upon the links between the collective and personal psyches by laying emphasis on the ineluctable intertwining of national history and individual destiny.
Author | : Kenneth H. Hill |
Publisher | : Chalice Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2012-11 |
Genre | : Life cycle, Human |
ISBN | : 0827232845 |
Schweitzer?s goal in this book is to explore what postmodernity actually means for theology and how theology and the church may respond to its challenges. He focuses on the life cycle as it is changing with the advent of postmodernity, looking sequentially at segments of the life cycle using different lenses: modernity, postmodernity, and responses from church and theology. Schweitzer concludes with a theology of the life cycle.
Author | : J. Clark |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2012-10-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1137002832 |
This work is concerned with the way Black Christian formation, because of the acceptance of universal, absolute, and exclusive Christian doctrines, seems to justify and even encourage anti-African sentiment.