The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience

Auteur

Demetrius K. Williams is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Sr. Pastor of the Community Baptist Church of Greater Milwaukee.

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In The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience: Piety, Politics, and Protest Demetrius K. Williams examines and explores the ideational importance and rhetorical function of cross language and terminology in the spirituals, conversion narratives, and Black preaching tradition through an ideological lens.

Contenu

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One: The Cross of Christ and European Colonial Expansion

Chapter Two: The Cross of Christ and the Evangelization of the Enslaved

Chapter Three: The Cross of Christ in the Spirituals

Chapter Four: The Cross of Christ in Conversion Accounts and Testimonies of the Formerly Enslaved

Chapter Five: The Cross of Christ in Black Preaching

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the Author