"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... 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 opening address 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 opening address for " The ...
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... spiritual and ethical value in their understanding of history . Their history . " 2 Black religion , he continues , " represents the desire of Blacks to be self - conscious about the meaning of their blackness and to search for spiritual ...
... spiritual and ethical value in their understanding of history . Their history . " 2 Black religion , he continues , " represents the desire of Blacks to be self - conscious about the meaning of their blackness and to search for spiritual ...
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... spiritual base in the God who is the root of Africans ' spirituality that survived slavery . In The Spirituality Of African Peoples , Paris states , “ one of the most important marks of continuity between Africans on the continent and ...
... spiritual base in the God who is the root of Africans ' spirituality that survived slavery . In The Spirituality Of African Peoples , Paris states , “ one of the most important marks of continuity between Africans on the continent and ...
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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