A forgotten and beautiful African American folk tradition reexamined
Together Let Us Sweetly Live offers a rare look at the unique grassroots African American religious institutions called the Singing and Praying Bands. This folksong and ring shout tradition began in Chesapeake Bay country in the early nineteenth century, with a fusion of Methodist prayer meeting worship and African religious, danced song traditions. Although scholars have assumed ring shouts died out long ago, Jonathan C. David shows otherwise, ushering us inside tidewater communities of Maryland and Delaware...
A forgotten and beautiful African American folk tradition reexamined
Together Let Us Sweetly Live offers a rare look at the unique gra...
The trouble with reading the Bible is that it claims to be God's autobiography; so the first thing readers must do is decide what they understand about God and how they are going to interpret his role in the rambling library of books that claims his authorship. Richard Holloway offers a usefully dialectical approach to this central question that will allow unbelievers as well as believers to profit from a study of the most influential book in human history.
The trouble with reading the Bible is that it claims to be God's autobiography; so the first thing readers must do is decide what they understand a...
The absolutely poor, who are mostly rural people, are a large part of the developing world's population. Government development programmes, aided by the big donors, have made the poor poorer and have rendered them more powerless in relation to the rest of society. This book describes the problems and provides the answers.
The absolutely poor, who are mostly rural people, are a large part of the developing world's population. Government development programmes, aided by t...
This text belongs to a series of works which intend to show that, far from being moribund, the tradition of preaching is alive and well. Included in this book are readings on seasons in the Christian year, saints and occasions, as well as a practical epilogue on preaching.
This text belongs to a series of works which intend to show that, far from being moribund, the tradition of preaching is alive and well. Included in t...
The absolutely poor, who are mostly rural people, are a large part of the developing world's population and their numbers are growing. Government development programmes, aided by the big donors, have made the poor poorer and have rendered them more powerless in relation to the rest of society. They have done this by sustaining and reinforcing existing exploitative economic, social and political structures. Yet people's movements. religious organizations, voluntary groups, universities and so on have often devised 'alternative' development strategies whose programmes are specifically intended...
The absolutely poor, who are mostly rural people, are a large part of the developing world's population and their numbers are growing. Government deve...
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