"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... minister . His words challenge the living to imitate the life of the deceased in order to meet him / her in Heaven . The messenger who delivers these passages are most often the Black preacher . Felder writes that the spoken word is ...
... minister . His words challenge the living to imitate the life of the deceased in order to meet him / her in Heaven . The messenger who delivers these passages are most often the Black preacher . Felder writes that the spoken word is ...
Page 71
... minister's words of comfort and exultation in his eulogy . While I sang I remember seeing and hearing my grandmother's cousin Girlleen and a close family friend become wrought with grief . Girlleen moaned , " Sis Fannie , she suffered ...
... minister's words of comfort and exultation in his eulogy . While I sang I remember seeing and hearing my grandmother's cousin Girlleen and a close family friend become wrought with grief . Girlleen moaned , " Sis Fannie , she suffered ...
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... , running or dancing , common to a Black Baptist or Pentecostal church . His sermon transformed that funeral into a church service , and people responded as if they were in an anointed Sunday morning service . The minister , often 73.
... , running or dancing , common to a Black Baptist or Pentecostal church . His sermon transformed that funeral into a church service , and people responded as if they were in an anointed Sunday morning service . The minister , often 73.
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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