Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue, Second Edition Black Theology in the Slave Narrative
Heftet /
2003
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9780664225216
Published
2003-07-31
Edition
2. edition
Publisher
Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
264
Biographical note
Dwight N. Hopkins is Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School in Chicago, Illinois. He has written several books, including Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion and Heart and Head: Black Theology--Past, Present, and Future. George C. L. Cummings is Pearl Rawlings Hamilton Professor of Systematic Theology at the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, California. He is also Senior Pastor of Imani Community Church in Oakland, California.Drawing on slave narratives found in forty-one volumes of interviews and one hundred autobiographies by former slaves, these contributors explore how enslaved African Americans received the often oppressive faith of their masters but transformed it into a gospel of liberation. This classic work demonstrates how an authentic black theology of liberation today must listen to the divine spirit that once fed and continues to feed the black religious experience. This second edition includes three additional provocative essays.
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Drawing on slave narratives found in forty-one volumes of interviews and one hundred autobiographies by former slaves, these contributors explore how enslaved African Americans received the often oppressive faith of their masters but transformed it into a gospel of liberation. This classic work demonstrates how an authentic black theology of...
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Product details
ISBN
9780664225216
Published
2003-07-31
Edition
2. edition
Publisher
Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
264