Bible and African Americans
A Brief History| By: | Vincent L. Wimbush |
| Publisher: | Stylus Publishing LLC |
| Print ISBN: | 9780800635749 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781451419443 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The unique encounter of African Americans with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and social engagement of a whole continent. Highly respected biblical scholar Vincent Wimbush here outlines the five phases of African American reading and shows how the Bible offered a language-world through which Africans Americans have negotiated the strange land into which they were thrust.