| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 218 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction: Unlikely Legacy -- Contemplation : A Cultural and Spiritual History -- Retrieving Lost Legacies : Contemplation in West Africa -- Every Shut Eye Ain't Sleep : The Inner Life During Slavery -- Come Ye Disconsolate : Contemplation in Black Church Congregational Life -- Joy Comes in the Morning : Contemplative Themes in African American Biblical Interpretation -- Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around : Contemplation, Activism, and Praxis -- Black Lives Matter and the Black Church : Twenty-First-Century Contemplative Activism -- Deep Rivers : The Contemplative Presidency of Barack Hussein Obama -- At the Crossroads : Art, Activism, and the Contemplative Life -- Afterword: Toward a Future Together |
| Summary |
Joy Unspeakable focuses on the aspects of the black church that point beyond particular congregational gatherings toward a mystical and communal spirituality not within the exclusive domain of any denomination. Holmes's research--through oral histories, church records, and written accounts--details not only ways in which contemplative experience is built into African American collective worship but also the legacy of African monasticism, a history of spiritual exemplars, and unique meditative worship practices |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Religion.
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African American Christians -- Religious life
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Contemplation.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- History.
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African Americans -- Religion.
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Contemplation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781506421629 |
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1506421628 |
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