Author: American Bible Society
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585169993
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
The African-American Jubilee Edition, Revised. This culturally-relevant edition of the King James Bible invites readers to reconnect with the historic struggles of their ancestors whose lives were fashioned by Jubilee Laws; and it reminds them that despite dispersion, social dislocation, and disenfranchisement, Gods enabling Spirit has been present all the time. Some of the features of this unique King James Bible include: 350 pages of supplementary articles, Full color illustrations, Historical Photographs. Hardcover.
African-American Jubilee Bible-KJV
Author: American Bible Society
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585169993
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
The African-American Jubilee Edition, Revised. This culturally-relevant edition of the King James Bible invites readers to reconnect with the historic struggles of their ancestors whose lives were fashioned by Jubilee Laws; and it reminds them that despite dispersion, social dislocation, and disenfranchisement, Gods enabling Spirit has been present all the time. Some of the features of this unique King James Bible include: 350 pages of supplementary articles, Full color illustrations, Historical Photographs. Hardcover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585169993
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
The African-American Jubilee Edition, Revised. This culturally-relevant edition of the King James Bible invites readers to reconnect with the historic struggles of their ancestors whose lives were fashioned by Jubilee Laws; and it reminds them that despite dispersion, social dislocation, and disenfranchisement, Gods enabling Spirit has been present all the time. Some of the features of this unique King James Bible include: 350 pages of supplementary articles, Full color illustrations, Historical Photographs. Hardcover.
Holy Bible
Author: American Bible Society
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585160211
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Suitable for personal use, in the home or for worship. Reader's aids and supplements. 1,551 pp. Easy to read 12 pt. font.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585160211
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Suitable for personal use, in the home or for worship. Reader's aids and supplements. 1,551 pp. Easy to read 12 pt. font.
The African-American Devotional Bible
Author:
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780310917830
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Red letter Daily insights from prominent black church leaders 250 weekday and 52 weekend meditations Book introductions Choice of 3 reading plans JSubject index Articles History of denominations Biographies on contributors 1,472 pp.
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780310917830
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Red letter Daily insights from prominent black church leaders 250 weekday and 52 weekend meditations Book introductions Choice of 3 reading plans JSubject index Articles History of denominations Biographies on contributors 1,472 pp.
African Americans and the Bible
Author: Vincent L. Wimbush
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610979648
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 913
Book 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 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 Bibleis 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. ThusAfrican Americans and the Bibleprovides an exemplum of sociocultural formation and a critical lens through which the process of sociocultural formation can be viewed.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610979648
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 913
Book 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 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 Bibleis 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. ThusAfrican Americans and the Bibleprovides an exemplum of sociocultural formation and a critical lens through which the process of sociocultural formation can be viewed.
The End of Days
Author: Matthew Harper
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469629372
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God's intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days. In this book, Matthew Harper demonstrates how black southerners' theology, in particular their understanding of the end times, influenced nearly every major economic and political decision they made in the aftermath of emancipation. From considering what demands to make in early Reconstruction to deciding whether or not to migrate west, African American Protestants consistently inserted themselves into biblical narratives as a way of seeing the importance of their own struggle in God's greater plan for humanity. Phrases like "jubilee," "Zion," "valley of dry bones," and the "New Jerusalem" in black-authored political documents invoked different stories from the Bible to argue for different political strategies. This study offers new ways of understanding the intersections between black political and religious thought of this era. Until now, scholarship on black religion has not highlighted how pervasive or contested these beliefs were. This narrative, however, tracks how these ideas governed particular political moments as African Americans sought to define and defend their freedom in the forty years following emancipation.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469629372
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God's intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days. In this book, Matthew Harper demonstrates how black southerners' theology, in particular their understanding of the end times, influenced nearly every major economic and political decision they made in the aftermath of emancipation. From considering what demands to make in early Reconstruction to deciding whether or not to migrate west, African American Protestants consistently inserted themselves into biblical narratives as a way of seeing the importance of their own struggle in God's greater plan for humanity. Phrases like "jubilee," "Zion," "valley of dry bones," and the "New Jerusalem" in black-authored political documents invoked different stories from the Bible to argue for different political strategies. This study offers new ways of understanding the intersections between black political and religious thought of this era. Until now, scholarship on black religion has not highlighted how pervasive or contested these beliefs were. This narrative, however, tracks how these ideas governed particular political moments as African Americans sought to define and defend their freedom in the forty years following emancipation.
The Original African Heritage Study Bible
Author:
Publisher: Nelson Bibles
ISBN: 9780529100672
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Footnotes Articles on topics dealing with blacks/Africans and the Bible 56 full-color pictures Book introductions Illustrations Maps Presentation pageRed letter Ribbon marker 2,048 pp.
Publisher: Nelson Bibles
ISBN: 9780529100672
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Footnotes Articles on topics dealing with blacks/Africans and the Bible 56 full-color pictures Book introductions Illustrations Maps Presentation pageRed letter Ribbon marker 2,048 pp.
The Black Church
Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984880330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984880330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series. “Absolutely brilliant . . . A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again “Engaging. . . . In Gates’s telling, the Black church shines bright even as the nation itself moves uncertainly through the gloaming, seeking justice on earth—as it is in heaven.” —Jon Meacham, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road and The Black Box, and one of our most important voices on the African American experience, comes a powerful new history of the Black church as a foundation of Black life and a driving force in the larger freedom struggle in America. For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity—an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today’s political landscape. At road’s end, and after Gates’s distinctive meditation on the churches of his childhood, we emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative—as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community’s most critical personal and social issues. In a country that has historically afforded its citizens from the African diaspora tragically few safe spaces, the Black Church has always been more than a sanctuary. This fact was never lost on white supremacists: from the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Long after slavery’s formal eradication, church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists continued, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. The past often isn’t even past—Dylann Roof committed his slaughter in the Mother Emanuel AME Church 193 years after it was first burned down by white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, following a thwarted slave rebellion. But as Gates brilliantly shows, the Black church has never been only one thing. Its story lies at the heart of the Black political struggle, and it has produced many of the Black community’s most notable leaders. At the same time, some churches and denominations have eschewed political engagement and exemplified practices of exclusion and intolerance that have caused polarization and pain. Those tensions remain today, as a rising generation demands freedom and dignity for all within and beyond their communities, regardless of race, sex, or gender. Still, as a source of faith and refuge, spiritual sustenance and struggle against society’s darkest forces, the Black Church has been central, as this enthralling history makes vividly clear.
The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936533800
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Slave Bible was published in 1807. It was commissioned on behalf of the Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves in England. The Bible was to be used by missionaries and slave owners to teach slaves about the Christian faith and to evangelize slaves. The Bible was used to teach some slaves to read, but the goal first and foremost was to tend to the spiritual needs of the slaves in the way the missionaries and slave owners saw fit.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936533800
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Slave Bible was published in 1807. It was commissioned on behalf of the Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves in England. The Bible was to be used by missionaries and slave owners to teach slaves about the Christian faith and to evangelize slaves. The Bible was used to teach some slaves to read, but the goal first and foremost was to tend to the spiritual needs of the slaves in the way the missionaries and slave owners saw fit.
A History of the African American Church
Author: LeRoy Fitts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949052039
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
A History of the African American Church is an interdenominational and international study of the historic evolution of African American church developments from slavery to the present. It traces the spirituality of African Americans from Africa and Euro-America, inclusive of an in-depth study of the origin, denominational developments, and historic ministries of the churches in education; home and foreign missions; civil and human rights; and moral issues confronting African Americans.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781949052039
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
A History of the African American Church is an interdenominational and international study of the historic evolution of African American church developments from slavery to the present. It traces the spirituality of African Americans from Africa and Euro-America, inclusive of an in-depth study of the origin, denominational developments, and historic ministries of the churches in education; home and foreign missions; civil and human rights; and moral issues confronting African Americans.
African American Family Heirloom Bible-KJV
Author: DeVore & Sons
Publisher: DeVore & Sons
ISBN: 9781556651915
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The African-American Heirloom Family Bible is designed to foster family, community and cultural ties better than any Bible ever published. This beautiful family Bible contains: * The African Influence in Scripture * The Role of The Bible in the Civil Rights movement * The Family Album * The Celebration of Kwanzaa * And many more features unique to The African-American Heirloom Family Bible
Publisher: DeVore & Sons
ISBN: 9781556651915
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The African-American Heirloom Family Bible is designed to foster family, community and cultural ties better than any Bible ever published. This beautiful family Bible contains: * The African Influence in Scripture * The Role of The Bible in the Civil Rights movement * The Family Album * The Celebration of Kwanzaa * And many more features unique to The African-American Heirloom Family Bible