"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... American homegoing traditions . The studies of African American homegoing practices are rooted in the general ... Euro - American Christianity . For the enslaved Africans , death made slavery endurable as they believed its liberation ...
... American homegoing traditions . The studies of African American homegoing practices are rooted in the general ... Euro - American Christianity . For the enslaved Africans , death made slavery endurable as they believed its liberation ...
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... American funerals , services that mark the homegoing of the individual and renew the ties of the survivors . Mbiti ... Euro - American practices which also shaped African American homegoing celebrations . Most European funerals were ...
... American funerals , services that mark the homegoing of the individual and renew the ties of the survivors . Mbiti ... Euro - American practices which also shaped African American homegoing celebrations . Most European funerals were ...
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... Euro - American ancestors . African Americans believe in a God who is unseen , but felt . In this religious context death is understood " as a time of rebirth and not as the end of life . " 162 An attitude of hope and faith in death ...
... Euro - American ancestors . African Americans believe in a God who is unseen , but felt . In this religious context death is understood " as a time of rebirth and not as the end of life . " 162 An attitude of hope and faith in death ...
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