Existential togetherness : toward a common black religious heritage / DeWayne R. Stallworth ; foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin.
The notion of community entails more than just shared space in the here-and-now moment. For African Americans especially, communal engagement is a sacred experience that stretches from the mundane to the spectacular in a cyclical historical pattern. DeWayne R. Stallworth illumines the broadness of t...
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Language: | English |
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Eugene, Oregon :
Pickwick Publications,
[2019]
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Physical Description: | xx, 158 pages ; 23 cm |
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Contents:
- An existential question of worth
- Togetherness, modernity, and acculturation
- Trauma, conversion, and the mythical meaning of the slave preacher
- Excursus: Du Bois, racism, and black religion
- Martin Luther King Jr. and the rhetoric of existential togetherness
- Epilogue: Black privilege: the antithesis to existential togetherness.