The Bible and African Americans: A History in Six Readings Wimbush Vincent L.
The Bible and African Americans: A History in Six Readings Wimbush Vincent L. African Americans' unique encounter with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and the social engagement of a…
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The Bible and African Americans: A History in Six Readings Wimbush Vincent L.
African Americans' unique encounter with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and the social engagement of a whole continent. Wimbush outlines six African American readings that correspond to different historical periods. In The Bible and African Americans, highly respected biblical scholar Vincent Wimbush outlines different ways African Americans read the Bible.The Bible offered a language-world--a place that held the stories where they could retreat and imagine themselves as something different than they were--through which African Americans have negotiated the strange land into which they were thrust.
He details the various responses to these historical situations and how they helped shape a collective self-understanding.In this important and concise book, Wimbush demonstrates how the Bible empowered African Americans with agency and social power,
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