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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Introduction to the practice of African American preaching

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Frank A. Thomas

Summary

An introduction to and primer on African American preaching

Table Of Contents

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 PreachingChapter 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 ChurchThe 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

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