Honoring the ancestors [electronic resource] : an African cultural interpretation of Black religion and literature / Donald H. Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthews, Donald Henry, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black theology.

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

Spirituals (Songs)--History and criticism.

Spirituals (Songs).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using ""The Negro Spiritual"" as a source material, this volume analyzes the methods employed by social scientists, historians and literary critics in studying African-American religion, and makes its own theological statement regarding African-American religion.

Contents:

Contents; ONE: Interpretation and the African American Situation; TWO: Cultural Contact and Cultural Space: The Dialectics of Negation and Resistance; THREE: A Theology of the Spirituals: The Spirituals as Postmodern Discourse; FOUR: Black Literary Criticism and Narrative Hermeneutics; FIVE: An Analysis of All God's Dangers Based on the Spirituals; SIX: The Spirituals: An African Cultural Narrative Theology; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; W

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-167) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-44171-2

0-19-535804-X

1-60129-993-1

OCLC:

45733805