Dark Salutations
[Paperback]
by Riggins R. Earl Jr.
Today's Price
£42.41
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Dark Salutations
Today's Price £42.41
Life giving resources. Faithfully delivered.
FREE delivery on orders over £10
Serving over 2 million Christians in the UK
with Bibles, Books and Church Supplies
Our Buy-Now-Pay-Later accounts used
by over 4,000 UK Churches & Schools
[Paperback]
by Riggins R. Earl Jr.
£42.41
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Dark Salutations
Today's Price £42.41
Add both to basket for £60.98 and save £7.50
Although Henry Louis Gates examined the ways in which African slave language formed the metaphors for African American poetry and fiction in The Signifying Monkey, there have been no studies of the theological and ethical significance of the salutations of black Americans until now. In Dark Salutations, Riggins Earl examines black American's ethnocentric verbalized salutary expressions-"brotherman" and "sistergirl," for example-that dominate their ritualistic moments of social encounter.
The noticeable religious content of some of these salutations drives us to examine blacks' understandings of God and brother/sisterhood challenges: Is God a respecter of persons? Or, have black people understood God to be "faithfully for them and with them" politically and spiritually? Have black people understood themselves to be "trustfully for and with" each other spiritually and politically? Have black people understood themselves to be "trustfully for and with" even the whites who oppressed them? Earl argues that these salutary expressions show how blacks have lived with the burdensome challenge of having to prove their sisterly and brotherly capacities, and with the insatiable desire to be treated as equal siblings in the family of God.
.
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Continuum
Published
September 2001
Weight
314g
Page Count
266
Dimensions
145 x 210 x 19 mm
ISBN
9781563383588
ISBN-10
1563383586
Eden Code
1178312
More Information
ISBN: 9781563383588
Publisher: Continuum
Release Date: September 2001
Weight: 314g
Dimensions: 145 x 210 x 19 mm
Eden Code: 1178312