"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... belief points to a cultural continuity inherent in African Americans ' belief system . The diasporic approach to death is also described in Robert Farris Thompson's Flash of the Spirit which states , the " Bakongo believe and hold it ...
... belief points to a cultural continuity inherent in African Americans ' belief system . The diasporic approach to death is also described in Robert Farris Thompson's Flash of the Spirit which states , the " Bakongo believe and hold it ...
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... belief system that was not obliterated by slavery . Like earlier research , however , Wright and Hughes pay little attention to the Christian beliefs of African Americans . The relationship between specifically Christian belief and ...
... belief system that was not obliterated by slavery . Like earlier research , however , Wright and Hughes pay little attention to the Christian beliefs of African Americans . The relationship between specifically Christian belief and ...
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... belief system of a monotheistic God that I conclude Africans had prior knowledge of before their enslavement . This pre - existing belief system found compatibility in a worship of a Supreme God in the United States . Given the close ...
... belief system of a monotheistic God that I conclude Africans had prior knowledge of before their enslavement . This pre - existing belief system found compatibility in a worship of a Supreme God in the United States . Given the close ...
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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