TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marbury,Herbert Robinson
TI  - Pillars of cloud and fire: the politics of exodus in African American biblical interpretation 
T2  - Religion and social transformation
SN  - 9781479875030
AV  - BT82.7 .M356 2015eb
U1  - 230.089/96073 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Black interpretations
KW  - Interprétations noires
KW  - fast
KW  - Black theology
KW  - Exodus, The
KW  - Typology
KW  - Théologie noire
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Systematic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - Black interpretations of sacred works
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Exodus: Israelite deliverance and antebellum hope -- Exodus in the wilderness: making bitter water sweet -- Exodus and Hurston: toward a humanist critique of Black religion in the Harlem Renaissance -- Exodus in the Civil Rights era: returning the struggle to the Black church -- Exodus at the intersection of the Black Power Movement and the Black church -- Conclusion: Cloud, fire, and beyond
N2  - At the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own sacred traditions and their own civil discourses. As part of this effort, African American intellectuals offered interpretations of the Bible which were radically different and often fundamentally oppositional to those of many of their white counterparts. By imagining a freedom unconstrained, their work charted a broader and, perhaps, a more genuinely American identity. In 'Pillars of Cloud and Fire', Herbert Robinson Marbury offers a comprehensive survey of African American biblical interpretation
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ER  -