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The golden band : African American spirituals and the hermeneutics of world / Asante U. Todd.

Van Pelt Library BT83.63 .T63 2025
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Todd, Asante, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Public theology.
African Americans--Religion.
African Americans.
Spirituals (Songs)--History and criticism.
Spirituals (Songs).
Ethnomusicology.
ethnomusicology.
Physical Description:
xviii, 205 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2025.
Summary:
"An African American public theology that uses the religious as well as the musical compositional features of the Spirituals to critique the cultural logic of sovereignty"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: On the spirituals, prophecy, and theomusicology
Part one: The cultural logic of sovereignty and the theological hermeneutics of world. African American religious and cultural criticism
The global leviathan appears
The sense of another world
Part tow: African American religious thought. Mind, body and spirit
Covenant, law, and the sound of jazz
Part three: The spirituals. Ring shout to Heaven, call and response
Nature, spirit, and song
De Lord is per-wide, Rock o'my soul, and Holy-Ghost the pilot
Roll, Jordan, roll.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
9780802885142
0802885144
OCLC:
1500402542
Publisher Number:
90102196023

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