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Book

Preaching with sacred fire : an anthology of African American sermons, 1750 to the present

Call Number

  • 252 P9227 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : W.W. Norton, c2010.

Physical Description

xxviii, 960 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents

  • The beginnings of Black preaching, 1750/1789
  • Social and religious emancipation, 1790/1865
  • From reconstruction to deconstruction, 1866/1917
  • World wars, freedom struggles, and renaissance, 1918/1950
  • Civil rights and direct action, 1951/1968
  • From Black to African American and beyond, 1969 to the present
  • Whooping : the musicality of African American preaching, past and present / by Martha Simmons
  • Other notable preachers.

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