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Price: $120.00
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Sale: $62.88
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Herman E Thomas
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.6092
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Publication Date: 1995-03-01
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Reading Level: 206
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Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
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Dewey Decimal Number: 220.08996073
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Publication Date: 2001-01
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Reading Level: 876
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Description: 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 the Mississippi through the American heartland. 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 and also music, film, dance, drama, and literature. The focus is on the complex interaction between the people known as African Americans and that complex of rhetorics, visions, 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 socio-cultural 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 socio-cultural formation and a critical lens through which the process of socio-cultural formation can be viewed.
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Shirley C. Gordon
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.292081
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Publication Date: 1996-09
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Reading Level: 159
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Description: Describes the impact of evangelical Christianity on slaves in Jamaica in the 84 years between the arrival of the first European Protestant missionaries and emancipation in 1838, analyzing the association of Christianity with the slaves' growing aspirations for freedom and the desire of freed person
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Price: $93.00
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Sale: $89.01
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Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Henry Harris
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 253.08996073
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Publication Date: 2002-02
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This book focuses on pastoral and lay leadership in the African American church. It deals with the internal and external issues such as the tendency toward a bifurcated mentality and practice such as the this is business syndrome as well as the social issue of race and affirmative action. Ministers and laity in the black church must actively engage themselves in overcoming the inequities that are still endemic to life in urban America. Harris affirms that affirmative action policies are more important than ever in obtaining a degree of social justice.
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Price: $19.00
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Sale: $66.34
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Manufacturer: Trinity Pr Intl
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mary R. Sawyer
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Publisher: Trinity Pr Intl
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.308208996073
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Publication Date: 1994-06
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Reading Level: 272
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Manufacturer: Beckham Publications Group, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Cain Hope Felder
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Publisher: Beckham Publications Group, Inc.
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Publication Date: 1995-12
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Description: Reviews of literary, scholarly and religious treatments of blacks in the Bible and in society.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $1.50
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Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Martha F. Lee
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Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 297.87
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Publication Date: 1996-06
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: Covering the Black Muslim religion, the Nation of Islam, in America since the turn of the 20th century to 1986, this study documents the transformation of the Nation, after the death of Elijah Mohammed, into two quite different entities.
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Price: $124.00
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Sale: $116.07
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Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Carrie Pemberton
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Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.0820967
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Publication Date: 2003-05-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This volume traces the origins of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, a group of African women theologians established in the 1980s. The movement has been dedicated to research, publication and support of African women. The text traces a struggle against excluding and alienating practices from Western missionary tradition and African cultural transpositions in contemporary church and society. The theology of advocacy which has emerged encourages African women to develop theologies of empowerment from their histories and struggles, and addresses the multiple crises which the continent faces. The problematics of culture, ethics and post-colonialism is explored in the issues surrounding ubiquitous violence against women on the continent and the continuation of clitoridectomy as an enduring strategy for marking gender and clan for some African peoples.
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Price: $84.95
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Sale: $84.95
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Milton Sernett
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.3082108996073
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Publication Date: 1997
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Reading Level: 360
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Description: Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration—the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon’s religious and cultural implications, Milton C. Sernett breaks with traditional patterns of historiography that analyze the migration in terms of socioeconomic considerations.
Drawing on a range of sources—interviews, government documents, church periodicals, books, pamphlets, and articles—Sernett shows how the mass migration created an institutional crisis for black religious leaders. He describes the creative tensions that resulted when the southern migrants who saw their exodus as the Second Emancipation brought their religious beliefs and practices into northern cities such as Chicago, and traces the resulting emergence of the belief that black churches ought to be more than places for "praying and preaching." Explaining how this social gospel perspective came to dominate many of the classic studies of African American religion, Bound for the Promised Land sheds new light on various components of the development of black religion, including philanthropic endeavors to "modernize" the southern black rural church. In providing a balanced and holistic understanding of black religion in post–World War I America, Bound for the Promised Land serves to reveal the challenges presently confronting this vital component of America’s religious mosaic.
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Manufacturer: Catholic University of America Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Morris J. MacGregor
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Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282.753
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Publication Date: 1999-05-01
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Reading Level: 543
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Description: Since the early days of the Republic, Washington has nurtured an increasingly prosperous and articulate community of black Catholics. For much of that time the spiritual welfare of these citizens as well as their material aspirations centered on St. Augustine's parish. From the days of Civil War, through the decades when Jim Crow ruled Washington, to recent times and new challenges for the inner city, black Catholics from all over the area have worshipped regularly at St. Augustine's. Popularly called "The Mother Church of Black Catholics," it provides a beacon of hope for its parishioners, and its history offers a unique lens through which to view the emergence of an important Washington community. Morris J. MacGregor traces the history of St. Augustine's from its beginning as a modest chapel and school to its recent years as one of the city's most imposing and active churches. For more than a century, the congregation has counted among its members many of the intellectual and social elite of black society as well as impoverished newcomers struggling with the perils of urban life. This socially diverse membership, enhanced by a constant stream of visitors of all races and classes drawn by the beauty of the church and the artistry of its musicians, has made St. Augustine's an exemplar of Christian brotherhood. The book presents in considerable detail the history of race relations in church and state since the founding of the Federal City. Parish lay leaders have long been crusaders in the fight for racial justice; they have played important roles in the Congress of Colored Catholics, the Federation of Colored Catholics, the Catholic Interracial Council, and the NAACP. MacGregor discusses these groups as well as more recent urban institutions such as the vibrant 14th and U Streets Coalition. Because music has played an essential role at St. Augustine's, a sizable appendix is devoted to its history in the parish. The religious, racial, and social insights uncovered in this fascinating history make it a valuable resource for the study of American social and church history.
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