Religion in African-American culture / edited by Winfried Herget, Alfred Hornung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herget, Winfried, 1935-

Hornung, Alfred.

Series:

American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 83.

American studies ; v. 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religion--Congresses.

African Americans.

Religion.

African Americans--Religion.

United States--Religion--Congresses.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 234 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Winter, 2006.

Contents:

Preface / Winfried Herget, Alfred Hornung

Between Catholicism and voodoo : the Creoles of color in Louisiana / Michel Fabre

The art of darkness : representations of the Obeah woman in British fiction / Kirsten Raupach

Black itinerant women preachers : conversion to empowerment, the example of Jarena Lee / Winfried Herget

James Weldon Johnson's biblical tuning of God's trombones / Manfred Siebald

"Plays of negro life" : African American religion as frame of reference in folk drama of the Harlem Renaissance / Kerstin Schmidt

Religion and Afro-Modernism : Claude McKay's transatlantic syncretism / Alfred Hornung

Mapping and mirroring : Nella Larsen's and Ralph Ellison's critiques of African American religion / Thadious M. Davis

". . . trying to blow all life through . . a brass trombone" : Ralph Ellison preaches the blues / Robert G. O'Meally

The limits of religion and history : the African American intellectual in the twentieth century / Christopher Mulvey

Robert Hayden (1913-1980) : artistic integrity and religious belief / Nassim W. Balestrini

The Nation of Islam as an American religion / Frank Kelleter.

Notes:

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3825309894

9783825309893

OCLC:

71007777