LEADER 04278nam 22006135 450 001 9910907087303321 005 20250322110038.0 010 $a9781479875030 010 $a1479875031 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479875030 035 $a(CKB)3710000000483676 035 $a(EBL)4012135 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001552351 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16171194 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001552351 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12664393 035 $a(PQKB)10731431 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326142 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4012135 035 $a(OCoLC)922000094 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42945 035 $a(DE-B1597)548078 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479875030 035 $a(ODN)ODN0002285469 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000483676 100 $a20200723h20152015 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPillars of Cloud and Fire $eThe Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation /$fHerbert Robinson Marbury 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cNew York University Press, $d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 225 0 $aReligion and Social Transformation ;$v8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-4798-3596-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface: Locating the Project -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Exodus: Israelite Deliverance and Antebellum Hope -- $t2. Exodus in the Wilderness: Making Bitter Water Sweet -- $t3. Exodus and Hurston: Toward a Humanist Critique of Black Religion in the Harlem Renaissance -- $t4. Exodus in the Civil Rights Era: Returning the Struggle to the Black Church -- $t5. Exodus at the Intersection of the Black Power Movement and the Black Church -- $tConclusion: Cloud, Fire, and Beyond -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex of Names -- $tIndex of Subjects -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aAt the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own sacred traditions and their own civil discourses. As part of this effort, African American intellectuals offered interpretations of the Bible which were radically different and often fundamentally oppositional to those of many of their white counterparts. By imagining a freedom unconstrained, their work charted a broader and, perhaps, a more genuinely American identity. In Pillars of Cloud and Fire, Herbert Robinson Marbury offers a comprehensive survey of African American biblical interpretation. Each chapter in this compelling volume moves chronologically, from the antebellum period and the Civil War through to the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Obama era, to offer a historical context for the interpretative activity of that time and to analyze its effect in transforming black social reality. For African American thinkers such as Absalom Jones, David Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Frances E. W. Harper, Adam Clayton Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the exodus story became the language-world through which freedom both in its sacred resonance and its civil formation found expression. This tradition, Marbury argues, has much to teach us in a world where fundamentalisms have become synonymous with ?authentic? religious expression and American identity. For African American biblical interpreters, to be American and to be Christian was always to be open and oriented toward freedom. 410 0$aReligion and social transformation. 606 $aBlack theology 606 $aExodus, The$xTypology 615 0$aBlack theology. 615 0$aExodus, The$xTypology. 676 $a230.08996073 700 $aMarbury$b Herbert Robinson, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01774728 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910907087303321 996 $aPillars of Cloud and Fire$94287548 997 $aUNINA