Introduction to the practice of African American preaching / Frank A. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Frank A. (Frank Anthony), 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American preaching.

African American preaching--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nashville, [Tennessee] : Abingdon Press, 2016.

Summary:

An introduction to and primer on African American preaching.

Contents:

Intro

HALF-TITLE PAGE

Also by Frank A. Thomas

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT PAGE

DEDICATION

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: The Bus Tour of the Study of African American Preaching

Folk Preaching and Educated Preaching

The Paucity of Academic Study of African American Preaching

The Study of African American Preaching before Martin Luther King Jr.

The Study of African American Preaching after Martin Luther King Jr.

African American Women and Womanists

Taxonomy of the Study of African American Preaching

Chapter Two: Negro Expression, Signifying, and the Rhetoric of African American Preaching

The Historical Relationship between Homiletics and Rhetoric

Zora Neale Hurston and the Oral Tradition of Black Preaching

Signifying and African American Preaching

Chapter Three: "It's Alright Now": A Rhetorical Analysis of Gardner C. Taylor's Sermon "His Own Clothes"

Characteristics of African American Preaching

Black Preaching: Henry H. Mitchell and Cleophus J. LaRue

Black Preaching and Rhetorical Criticism

Close Reading of "His Own Clothes"

Chapter Four: "Keepin' It Real": The Validity of the Existentially Authentic Performance

Jay-Z and Criteria for the Real

The Logic of the Lyrics

The Emotional Truth That Supports the Lyrics

The Human Motivation the MC Fills In

Getting Even the Smallest Detail Right

Chapter Five: The Truth Is Always Relevant: Race and Economics in Contemporary African American Preaching

The Truth Is Always Relevant

The Civil Rights Movement and the New Movement

The Bigger Subjects for Millennials and Gen-Xers

Tension Points: The New Movement and the Church

The Church and the New Movement

Taking the Long View

Afterword: "Seven Decades of African American Preaching"by Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

Selected Bibliography of African American Preaching

Appendix A: "His Own Clothes" by Gardner C. Taylor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-5018-1895-3

OCLC:

960444853