Introduction to the Practice of African American Preaching.

An introduction to and primer on African American preaching.

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Author / Creator: Thomas, Frank A.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Nashville, Tennessee : Abingdon Press, 2016.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a Selected Bibliography of African American Preaching -- Appendix A: "His Own Clothes" by Gardner C. Taylor. 
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