Sing a new song : liberating Black hymnody /
Jon Michael Spencer's bold book steps into the intersection of African American life and Christian traditions. He tracks ways in which distortions within the biblical and theological traditions - notably their biases and myths about gender, race, and class - have infected even black Christianit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
c1995.
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| Summary: | Jon Michael Spencer's bold book steps into the intersection of African American life and Christian traditions. He tracks ways in which distortions within the biblical and theological traditions - notably their biases and myths about gender, race, and class - have infected even black Christianity. His learned and eloquent plea for a more critical Christianity has important implications for all churches. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 231 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0800627229 (alk. paper) : |