Pragmatic spirituality : the Christian faith through an Africentric lens / by Wilmore, Gayraud S.

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The spirituality of African peoples : the search for a common moral discourse / by Paris, Peter J., 1933-

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From spirituals to symphonies : African-American women composers and their music / by Walker-Hill, Helen

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Sinful tunes and spirituals : Black folk music to the Civil War / by Epstein, Dena J., 1916-2013

Table of Contents: “…Opposition to religious instruction of slaves ; Camp meetings ; Missions to the slaves ; Black religious groups ; Oppostion to secular music and dancing -- Distinctive Black religious music. Spirituals ; Attempts to suppress Black religious singing ; The shout ; Funerals -- Early wartime reports and the first publication of a spiritual and its music -- The Port Royal experiment. …”


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The Black spiritual movement : a religious response to racism / by Baer, Hans A., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…1. The Spiritual Movement and the Black Religious Experience -- 2. …”


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Black spirituality and Black consciousness : soul force, culture, and freedom in the African-American experience / by Stewart, Carlyle Fielding, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…A definition of African-American spirituality -- African spirituality and human freedom -- Spirituality and the hermeneutics of freedom -- Five functional dynamics of African-American spirituality -- Spirituality and relational freedom -- Spirituality and institutional freedom: the gifts of the African-American church -- Conclusion.…”


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Resurrection song : African-American spirituality / by Bridges, Flora Wilson, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The African legacy: a unified worldview -- The quest for identity -- The call to protest: spirituality embodied -- The community -- Scaling the mountain peaks of spirituality: Thurman, King, and Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik Shabazz) -- Black film as theology -- African-American spirituality: a definition.…”


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The Black church in America : African American Christian spirituality / by Battle, Michael, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Emergence of what is African -- The particularity of African American spirituality -- The Black church in the shadow of slavery -- Communal worship -- Inviting others to be black -- The Black church as the beloved community -- Embodying African American spirituality.…”


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Spiritual empowerment in Afro-American literature : Frederick Douglass, Rebecca Jackson, Booker T. Washington, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison by Evans, James H., 1950-

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Spirituality and the Black helping tradition in social work / by Martin, Elmer P.

Table of Contents: “…Spirituality and the traditional African helper -- Spirituality and the enslaved Black helper -- Religious mythomania and the fight for freedom -- Spirituality and the race work in the free Black community -- Alexander Crummell, W.E.B. …”


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Dogged strength within the veil : African spirituality and the mysterious love of God / by Young, Josiah U. (Josiah Ulysses)

Table of Contents: “…Dogged strength within the veil : double-consciousness and the shrouding activity of the white man's religion -- Nobody knows the trouble I've seen : Du Bois's inner strength -- American Africanism : Toni Morrison's insight into the form of God -- God is nobody's toy : James Baldwin's rejection of a nullifying double standard -- Part three. Africana spirituality : progenies of the middle passage and their implications for today -- Questions louder than drums : this discomfort -- From Ryangombe the blood pact to the bloody Panga -- Part four. …”


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On the other side : African Americans tell of healing

Subjects: “…Spiritual healing Christianity.…”


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Powers divine : spiritual autobiography and black women's writing / by Carter, Tomeiko Ashford

Table of Contents: “…"Imaginative" narrations of divine power : Zilpha Elaw, Black feminist spiritual autobiography, and literary tradition -- Bridging literary divides : the auto/fictional spirit-writings of Harriet Wilson, Frances E.W. …”


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Hell without fires : slavery, Christianity, and the antebellum spiritual narrative / by Pierce, Yolanda Nicole

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The real deal : a spiritual guide for Black teen girls / by Cook, Billie Montgomery

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Culture on the margins : the Black spiritual and the rise of American cultural interpretation / by Cruz, Jon

Subjects: “…Spirituals (Songs) Social aspects.…”


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Faithful vision : treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction / by Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-2019

Table of Contents: “…African American faithful belief : imposing social determinism, naturalism, and modernism -- The centrality of religious faith : communal acceptance, textual ambiguity, and paradox -- Critiquing Christian belief : the text as prophecy of different ways of seeing salvation -- Rejecting God and redefining faith : portrayals of Black women's spirituality -- Reshaping and radicalizing faith : the diasporic vision and practice of hoodoo -- Conclusion : fiction, life, and faithful vision : final thoughts on its overall portrayal and relevance.…”


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Cultural codes : makings of a Black music philosophy : an interpretive history from spirituals to hip hop / by Banfield, William C., 1961-

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Call and response : the Riverside anthology of the African American literary tradition

Table of Contents: “…Wade in the water : [from] African American spirituals, the concert tradition (Smithsonian Folkways CD 40072) / [arranged by] Patsy Ford Simms/Jenson Pub. …”


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Moorings & metaphors : figures of culture and gender in Black women's literature by Holloway, Karla F. C., 1949-

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