"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... 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 diasporic practice is at the center of my ...
... 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 diasporic practice is at the center of my ...
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... slaves to have funerals that ushered the spirit's passage home . This practice is described by Eugene Genovese who ... slavery . This belief is noted in the Jubilation catalog which focuses on African American 9958 The 55Mbiti , 162 ...
... slaves to have funerals that ushered the spirit's passage home . This practice is described by Eugene Genovese who ... slavery . This belief is noted in the Jubilation catalog which focuses on African American 9958 The 55Mbiti , 162 ...
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... slaves brought their worldviews with them into the diaspora . " Therefore , the experience of slavery didn't obliterate their belief system , but it found compatible elements in Euro- American Christianity . As Felder presents the ...
... slaves brought their worldviews with them into the diaspora . " Therefore , the experience of slavery didn't obliterate their belief system , but it found compatible elements in Euro- American Christianity . As Felder presents the ...
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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