"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... physical world for the spiritual world . The likening of death to a home - going therefore represents the continuation of life in a transformed state . For African Americans , dying is a physical end and spiritual beginning . In his ...
... physical world for the spiritual world . The likening of death to a home - going therefore represents the continuation of life in a transformed state . For African Americans , dying is a physical end and spiritual beginning . In his ...
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... physical world to the spiritual world . His demise signals his arrival in his Heavenly home . This understanding ... physically dead but alive in the memory of those who knew 44 Smithsonian Institution , 8 . 45Mbiti , 150 . 46Ibid . 149 ...
... physical world to the spiritual world . His demise signals his arrival in his Heavenly home . This understanding ... physically dead but alive in the memory of those who knew 44 Smithsonian Institution , 8 . 45Mbiti , 150 . 46Ibid . 149 ...
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... physical strains of military training produced an endurance of which Mother Evans sang , " I Mean To Make It To That City . " That city was heaven , and she had come to believe that in order to get there " 99 and a half Won't Do ...
... physical strains of military training produced an endurance of which Mother Evans sang , " I Mean To Make It To That City . " That city was heaven , and she had come to believe that in order to get there " 99 and a half Won't Do ...
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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