Black Church and Black Community

Black Church and Black Community

James Baldwin''s Go Tell It on the Mountain

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ( 2010-09-15 )

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This book investigates the black church and black community in James Baldwin''s Go Tell It on the Mountain. It probes how and why the religion, namely Christianity, casts a loaded shadow for African Americans. Baldwin on the one hand vigorously illustrates a bodily pious black community. On the other hand, he serenely indicts a spiritually hollow black church. By borrowing God''s spear and shield--the language in the Bible and the music played inside (and later outside) the Black Church-- as his writing tool to tell a gospel-like parable. Baldwin has sung a blues gospel to the secular world.

Book Details:

ISBN-13:

978-3-8383-3237-6

ISBN-10:

3838332377

EAN:

9783838332376

Book language:

English

By (author) :

Daphne Lee

Number of pages:

152

Published on:

2010-09-15

Category:

Social structural research