African Americans and the Bible : sacred texts and social textures
The focus of this book is on the complex interaction between African Americans and that complex of rhetorics, visions, and ideologies known as the Bible. It is about a particular socio-cultural formation but also about the dynamics any group of people and sacred texts in general.
xx, 876 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
9780826412935, 9780826413765, 0826412939, 0826413765
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Pre-Texts: the study of the Bible as ethnography; the study of the Bible as socio-cultural hermeneutics; the study of the Bible as cultural-historical reality. Con-texts: flight, or cultural de-formation and discovery of the self-in-marronage; settlement, or formation of the self-and-worlds-in-marronage; negotiation, or re-form(ul)ation from the site of marronage. Sub-texts: "it's not just a church thing"; "it's not just a Christian thing"; "it's not just a black thing"; "it's not just an American thing"; "it is an academic/intellectual thing"; "some things about it are disturbing"; "it's how women read themselves and the world"; "it's not a change of colour but a whole change of subject kind of thing".