1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910811271303321

Autore

Aymer Margaret P.

Titolo

First pure, then peaceable : Frederick Douglass, darkness, and the Epistle of James / / Margaret P. Aymer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : T & T Clark, , 2008

©2007

ISBN

0-567-00239-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Collana

Library of New Testament studies ; ; 379

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Disciplina

227/.9106092

Soggetti

Light and darkness in the Bible

Slavery - Biblical teaching

Slavery - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [134]-142) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1 FREDERICK DOUGLASS, BIBLE READER; Biblical Studies: An On-going Critique; African Americans in the Guild of Biblical Studies; Cultural Interpretation: A Review and Critique; Moving from Silence to Darkness; Reading "Darkness": A Theoretical Model of Marronage; To Read "Darkness": Frederick Douglass as Exemplum; CHAPTER 2 FREDERICK DOUGLASS, "DARKNESS READER"; A Very Brief Biography; Is Douglass "Dark" Enough?; The Language of Religion; "First Pure, then Peaceable: The choice of Jas 3:17; Formation or Home-Building and the Bible

CHAPTER 3 REDEFINING "RELIGION": DOUGLASS'S ABOLITIONIST SPEECHES AND JAMES 3:17Oratory and Orientation; The Dimensions of Home: Frederick Douglass and Jas 3:17; "American Slavery, American Religion, and the Free Church of Scotland"; Structural, Textual, and Ideational Aspects; Rhetoric and Signification; Other Formative Uses of Jas 3:17 in Douglass's Abolitionist Speeches; "The Fourth of July" and Jas 3:17; "John Brown" and Jas 3:17; The Language of Formation: Further Considerations; CHAPTER 4 "FRIENDSHIP WITH THE [Omitted] IS ENMITY WITH GOD": "DARKNESS READING" AND THE EPISTLE OF JAMES

Reading "Darkness," Reading JamesA Brief Overview of the Epistle;



James as Re-form[ul]ation; Intertextuality and "Scripturalizing" in James; Signification and Other Rhetorical Moves in James; "Darkness Reading" and Jas 3:17; The Contours of the Pericope: Formal and Structural Considerations; Re-form[ul]ation and Jas 3:13-18; Intertextuality in Jas 3:13-18; Signification, Rhetoric and Jas 3:13-18; James and Darkness: Preliminary Conclusions; CHAPTER 5 TAKING AN "ELL": READING, DARKNESS, AND RESISTANCE; A "Reading" Lesson; "Reading" as Resistance; "Scriptures": The Norms of "America"

Evangelical Christianity and the Myth of America"Taking an Ell": "Reading" and "Darkness"; Why did Douglass "Read" James?; CHAPTER 6 "READING DARKNESS" AND "BIBLICAL STUDIES"; "Reading Darkness" as "Changing the 'Subject' "; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Sources; Index of Authors/Subjects; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; P; R; S; T; W

Sommario/riassunto

In 2001, Continuum published the extensive collected papers from African Americans and the Bible, an interdisciplinary conference held at Union Theological Seminary, NYC. In the collection''s introduction, Vincent L. Wimbush issued a challenge to take seriously those who ""read darkness,"" and to consider what it is they are doing when they read the Bible as ""scripture.""  Wimbush''s focus on ""darkness readers,"" both within and outside of the African diaspora, breaks open the discourse around the nature, meaning, and importance of the Bible. By following the lead of ""darkness readers,"" th



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964995203321

Autore

Volo James M. <1947->

Titolo

Family life in Native America / / James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , c2007

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024

ISBN

9798400649851

9786611106744

9781281106742

1281106747

9780313081156

0313081158

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 399 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Family life through history

Altri autori (Persone)

VoloDorothy Denneen <1949->

Disciplina

306.85089/97

Soggetti

Families - East (U.S.) - History

Kinship - East (U.S.) - History

Social structure - East (U.S.) - History

Woodland Indians - History

Woodland Indians - Social life and customs

East (U.S.) History

East (U.S.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-386) and index.

Nota di contenuto

An environmental geography of the northeast Woodlands -- The structure of Woodland society -- Native American kinship systems -- Child rearing from birth to marriage -- A world wrought from nature -- The bountiful earth mother -- Native American ceremonies and rituals -- The tomahawk and the cross -- Wilderness warfare -- The fur trade -- Intertribal trade and conflict -- Dispossessing the First Nations -- The Indian alliances -- Fighting back : the dark and bloody ground.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides insight into the family life of Native Americans of the northeast quadrant of the North American continent and those living in the adjacent coastal and piedmont regions. These Native



Americans were among the most familiar to Euro-colonials for more than two centuries. From the tribes of the northeast woodlands came Ògreat hunters, fishermen, farmers and fighters, as well as the most powerful and sophisticated Indian nation north of Mexico [the Iroquois Confederacy].|