
Existential Togetherness
Toward a Common Black Religious Heritage
Dewayne R. Stallworth(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 13. August 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
178 pages
978-1-5326-5161-8 (ISBN)
Description
The notion of community entails more than just shared space in the here-and-now moment. For African Americans especially, communal engagement is a sacred experience that stretches from the mundane to the spectacular in a cyclical historical pattern. DeWayne R. Stallworth illumines the broadness of this African American religious experience by looking back to the first shared experience of unbiased community that occurred during slavery. He then explores the difficulties of maintaining such a unity under the threat of supremacy as experienced through systemic structures of both white and black privilege. Most important, Stallworth unpacks how the black religious leader, although caricatured as uncouth and ignorant, remained the moral compass for community progression and uplift until the civil rights era. This provocative book is essential reading for anyone with a desire to obtain a broader and deeper understanding of what it means to be black, religious, and American in the twenty-first-century United States.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5326-5161-8 (9781532651618)
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08/2019
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Persons
DeWayne R. Stallworth is Professor of Religious Studies at American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of Stable Conscience (2013).