Encyclopedia of African American Religions
Encyclopedia of African American Religions

Author: Larry G. Murphy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-20

Total Pages: 1738

ISBN-13: 1135513457

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Preceded by three introductory essays and a chronology of major events in black religious history from 1618 to 1991, this A-Z encyclopedia includes three types of entries: * Biographical sketches of 773 African American religious leaders * 341 entries on African American denominations and religious organizations (including white churches with significant black memberships and educational institutions) * Topical articles on important aspects of African American religious life (e.g., African American Christians during the Colonial Era, Music in the African American Church)

Fire in His Heart
Fire in His Heart

Author: William Seraile

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781572330276

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A biography of one of the most distinguished leaders of the A.M.E. Church who influenced generations through his participation in African-American affairs and his writings in the Christian Recorder and other publications of the church.

The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity
The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity

Author: S. Johnson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-12-02

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1403978697

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This monograph is an original study of what is commonly termed the American "myth of Ham". It examines black and white Americans' recourse to the biblical character of Ham as a cultural strategy for explaining racial origins. Previous studies in the area have been restricted to associating the Hamitic idea with pro-slavery arguments, whereas the thesis of this project reveals a fundamental irony: black American Christians who reinforced the meanings of illegitimacy by appealing to Ham as the ancestor of the race.

Dark Salutations
Dark Salutations

Author: Riggins Renal Earl

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2001-08-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1563383586

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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. .