"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... heaven with God and deceased loved ones . " 11 This reflects both the African worldview theology and the Biblical view of the soul's return to God . The homegoing service signals the soul's passage of leaving the physical world for the ...
... heaven with God and deceased loved ones . " 11 This reflects both the African worldview theology and the Biblical view of the soul's return to God . The homegoing service signals the soul's passage of leaving the physical world for the ...
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... heaven . The words of the song referred to our limited knowledge and few travels in life though deepened in our faith of the existence of God . It was our belief in Him that enabled us to stand before the congregation and sing that ...
... heaven . The words of the song referred to our limited knowledge and few travels in life though deepened in our faith of the existence of God . It was our belief in Him that enabled us to stand before the congregation and sing that ...
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... Heaven . The biblical teaching of endurance implied in the song makes one hundred the desired the goal for Heaven , not 99 and a half . In spite of Mother Evans ' sicknesses and disappointments she decided to follow Jesus and instilled ...
... Heaven . The biblical teaching of endurance implied in the song makes one hundred the desired the goal for Heaven , not 99 and a half . In spite of Mother Evans ' sicknesses and disappointments she decided to follow Jesus and instilled ...
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According African American funeral African American homegoing African and African African worldview theology American homegoing celebrations American homegoing services American homegoing traditions Annie Mae Johnson Anthony Heilbut attire belief system bereavement Biblical Black Church Black preacher Brown County burial casket ceremony Charles Durant Christian African Americans Coevolution Quarterly color continuity of African Cornel West Crissman cultural continuity cultural practices deceased demonstrative expression display dress Elaine Nichols emotions enslaved Africans Eric Lincoln eulogy Euro-American European family and friends family members Felder final funeral home Funeral Traditions Gospel music grandmother grandmother's hair wreaths Heaven honor Jindra John Mbiti living loved Masamba and Kalish Mbiti writes Mother Evans mourners mourning Orleans Jazz Funerals performative elements Precious Lord presence of family processional religion represented ritual Ron Brown singing Sis Fannie Sis Fannie's slavery song South Carolina spiritual spoken word survivors Sybil Kein Take My Hand wake Washington West African wore Yoruba