Author: Clifton H. Johnson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610970470
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
An invaluable collection of vivid conversion narratives and autobiographies by illiterate but powerfully articulate ex-slaves, God Struck Me Dead is a window into the soul of America and its religious history. Gathered from the Fisk Social Science Institute's massive study during the 1930s on race relations, and originally published by the Pilgrim Press in 1969, this volume is a rich resource of liberation from those whose faith was borne and tested by the cruelest of human degradations - slavery. Includes a preface by Paul Radin, author and expert on primal religion.
God Struck Me Dead
Author: Clifton H. Johnson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610970470
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
An invaluable collection of vivid conversion narratives and autobiographies by illiterate but powerfully articulate ex-slaves, God Struck Me Dead is a window into the soul of America and its religious history. Gathered from the Fisk Social Science Institute's massive study during the 1930s on race relations, and originally published by the Pilgrim Press in 1969, this volume is a rich resource of liberation from those whose faith was borne and tested by the cruelest of human degradations - slavery. Includes a preface by Paul Radin, author and expert on primal religion.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610970470
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
An invaluable collection of vivid conversion narratives and autobiographies by illiterate but powerfully articulate ex-slaves, God Struck Me Dead is a window into the soul of America and its religious history. Gathered from the Fisk Social Science Institute's massive study during the 1930s on race relations, and originally published by the Pilgrim Press in 1969, this volume is a rich resource of liberation from those whose faith was borne and tested by the cruelest of human degradations - slavery. Includes a preface by Paul Radin, author and expert on primal religion.
God Struck Me Dead
God Struck Me Dead
Author: Fisk University. Social Science Institute
Publisher: Philadelphia : Pilgrim Press
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Scholars who are today engaged in reinterpreting and reevaluating American history in terms of the contributions of minority groups recognize a heavy indebtedness to Charles S. Johnson, Paul Radin, and other members of the Fisk University Social Science Institute for their pioneer research in the field of Negro life and culture. Under Dr. Johnson's direction, the Institute, in the 1930's, became one of the leading research centers for the social sciences in the nation. While pioneering in research methods and areas of study, the Institute was also preserving for future scholars documentary evidence of the contemporary scene: of the South in general and of the Negro in particular. -- Preface.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Pilgrim Press
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Scholars who are today engaged in reinterpreting and reevaluating American history in terms of the contributions of minority groups recognize a heavy indebtedness to Charles S. Johnson, Paul Radin, and other members of the Fisk University Social Science Institute for their pioneer research in the field of Negro life and culture. Under Dr. Johnson's direction, the Institute, in the 1930's, became one of the leading research centers for the social sciences in the nation. While pioneering in research methods and areas of study, the Institute was also preserving for future scholars documentary evidence of the contemporary scene: of the South in general and of the Negro in particular. -- Preface.
Foundations of Theological Study
Author: Richard Viladesau
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809132812
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This is a collection of readings in theology, classical and contemporary, intended for college level students. It covers the major themes of an introductory course in theology, the experience of the sacred, the notion of God, Revelation, Jesus Christ, and the Christian life. +
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809132812
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This is a collection of readings in theology, classical and contemporary, intended for college level students. It covers the major themes of an introductory course in theology, the experience of the sacred, the notion of God, Revelation, Jesus Christ, and the Christian life. +
Little Zion
Author: Shelly O'Foran
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807857632
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The arson attacks in 2006 on a number of small Baptist churches in rural Alabama recall the rash of burnings at predominantly black houses of worship that damaged or destroyed dozens of southern churches in the mid-1990s. One of the churches struck by pro
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807857632
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The arson attacks in 2006 on a number of small Baptist churches in rural Alabama recall the rash of burnings at predominantly black houses of worship that damaged or destroyed dozens of southern churches in the mid-1990s. One of the churches struck by pro
Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America
Author: R. Harrison
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023010066X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023010066X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression.
The Enclosed Garden
Author: Jean E. Friedman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469639459
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The southern women's reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement. The Enclosed Garden explains this delay by examining the subtle and complex roots of women's identity to disclose the structures that defined -- and limited -- female autonomy in the South. Jean Friedman demonstrates how the evangelical communities, a church-directed, kin-dominated society, linked plantation, farm, and town in the predominantly rural South. Family networks and the rural church were the princple influences on social relationships defining sexual, domestic, marital, and work roles. Friedman argues that the church and family, more than the institution of slavery, inhibited the formation of an antebellum feminist movement. The Civil War had little effect on the role of southern women because the family system regrouped and returned to the traditional social structure. Only with the onset of modernization in the late nineteenth century did conditions allow for the beginnings of feminist reform, and it began as an urban movement that did not challenge the family system. Friedman arrives at a new understanding of the evolution of Victorian southern women's identity by comparing the experiences of black women and white women as revealed in church records, personal letters, and slave narratives. Through a unique use of dream analysis, Friedman also shows that the dreams women described in their diaries reveal their struggle to resolve internal conflicts about their families and the church community. This original study provides a new perspective on nineteenth-century southern social structure, its consequences for women's identity and role, and the ways in which the rural evangelical kinship system resisted change.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469639459
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The southern women's reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement. The Enclosed Garden explains this delay by examining the subtle and complex roots of women's identity to disclose the structures that defined -- and limited -- female autonomy in the South. Jean Friedman demonstrates how the evangelical communities, a church-directed, kin-dominated society, linked plantation, farm, and town in the predominantly rural South. Family networks and the rural church were the princple influences on social relationships defining sexual, domestic, marital, and work roles. Friedman argues that the church and family, more than the institution of slavery, inhibited the formation of an antebellum feminist movement. The Civil War had little effect on the role of southern women because the family system regrouped and returned to the traditional social structure. Only with the onset of modernization in the late nineteenth century did conditions allow for the beginnings of feminist reform, and it began as an urban movement that did not challenge the family system. Friedman arrives at a new understanding of the evolution of Victorian southern women's identity by comparing the experiences of black women and white women as revealed in church records, personal letters, and slave narratives. Through a unique use of dream analysis, Friedman also shows that the dreams women described in their diaries reveal their struggle to resolve internal conflicts about their families and the church community. This original study provides a new perspective on nineteenth-century southern social structure, its consequences for women's identity and role, and the ways in which the rural evangelical kinship system resisted change.
Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States
Author: Travis M. Foster
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198838093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Studies the role popular literature in the systematic racism present in easy-going activities, ordinary feelings, and casual interactions. The volume uncovers this history of 'racial ordinariness' through various genres such as campus novels, Civil War elegies, regionalist sketches, and gospel sermon.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198838093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Studies the role popular literature in the systematic racism present in easy-going activities, ordinary feelings, and casual interactions. The volume uncovers this history of 'racial ordinariness' through various genres such as campus novels, Civil War elegies, regionalist sketches, and gospel sermon.
Terror and Triumph
Author: Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN: 150647473X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
What is the heart and soul of African American religious life? Anthony Pinn searches out the basic structure of Black religion, tracing the Black religious spirit in its many historical manifestations. In this new edition, Pinn reflects on the argument and invites a panel of five scholars to examine what it means for current and future scholarship.
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN: 150647473X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
What is the heart and soul of African American religious life? Anthony Pinn searches out the basic structure of Black religion, tracing the Black religious spirit in its many historical manifestations. In this new edition, Pinn reflects on the argument and invites a panel of five scholars to examine what it means for current and future scholarship.
River Run Red
Author: Andrew Ward
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440649294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
On April 12, 1864, on the Tennessee banks of the Mississippi River, a force of more than 3,000 Confederate cavalrymen under General Nathan Bedford Forrest stormed Fort Pillow, overwhelming a garrison of some 350 Southern white Unionists and over 300 former slaves turned artillerymen. By the next day, hundreds of Federals were dead, over 60 black soldiers had been captured and re-enslaved, and over 100 white soldiers had been marched off to their doom at Andersonville. Confederates called this bloody battle and its aftermath a hard-won victory. Northerners deemed it premeditated slaughter. To this day, Fort Pillow remains one of the most controversial battles in American history. River Run Red vividly depicts the incompetence and corruption of Union occupation in Tennessee, the horrors of guerrilla warfare, the legacy of slavery, and the pent-up bigotry and rage that found its release at Fort Pillow. Andrew Ward brings to life the garrison’s black soldiers and their ambivalent white comrades, and the former slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest and his ferocious cavalry, in a fast-paced narrative that hurtles toward that fateful April day and beyond. Destined to become as controversial as the battle itself, River Run Red establishes Fort Pillow’s true significance in the annals of American history.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440649294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
On April 12, 1864, on the Tennessee banks of the Mississippi River, a force of more than 3,000 Confederate cavalrymen under General Nathan Bedford Forrest stormed Fort Pillow, overwhelming a garrison of some 350 Southern white Unionists and over 300 former slaves turned artillerymen. By the next day, hundreds of Federals were dead, over 60 black soldiers had been captured and re-enslaved, and over 100 white soldiers had been marched off to their doom at Andersonville. Confederates called this bloody battle and its aftermath a hard-won victory. Northerners deemed it premeditated slaughter. To this day, Fort Pillow remains one of the most controversial battles in American history. River Run Red vividly depicts the incompetence and corruption of Union occupation in Tennessee, the horrors of guerrilla warfare, the legacy of slavery, and the pent-up bigotry and rage that found its release at Fort Pillow. Andrew Ward brings to life the garrison’s black soldiers and their ambivalent white comrades, and the former slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest and his ferocious cavalry, in a fast-paced narrative that hurtles toward that fateful April day and beyond. Destined to become as controversial as the battle itself, River Run Red establishes Fort Pillow’s true significance in the annals of American history.