Rethinking Celebration : From Rhetoric to Praise in African American Preaching 9781611646696, 9780664261498

Enduring Truth : Restoring Sound Theology and Relevance to African American Preaching [1 ed.] 9781433692031, 9781433692048

Enduring Truth argues that faithfulness to Scripture is the solution to a "crisis" among African American prea

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Introduction to the Practice of African American Preaching [1 ed.] 9781501818950, 9781501818943

The Introduction to African American Preaching is an important, groundbreaking book. This book acknowledges African Amer

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Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt: Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature 9780820705972

In this comparative and hybrid study, Reginald A. Wilburn offers the first scholarly work to theorize African American a

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African, American: From Tarzan to Dreams from My Father—Africa in the US Imagination 9781350218178, 9781783608539

Africa has long gripped the American imagination. From the Edenic wilderness of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan novels to

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Epideictic Rhetoric: Questioning the Stakes of Ancient Praise 9780292768215

Speeches of praise and blame constituted a form of oratory put to brilliant and creative use in the classical Greek peri

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Odious Praise: Rhetoric, Religion, and Social Thought 9780271092416

This book reveals a tradition of thought overlooked in our intellectual history but enormously influential even now: the

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Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion 9780814707999

From 1925 to 1941, approximately one hundred African American clergymen teamed up with leading record labels such as Col

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Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion [Illustrated] 0814708323, 9780814708323

The overlooked African American religious history of the phonograph industry Winner of the 2015 Frank S. and Elizabeth

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From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875 9781469601335, 9780807832905, 2008052517, 1469601338

In the years immediately following the Civil War--the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans

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American Political Rhetoric 0742511731

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