Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction"This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature |
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... Salvation chapter 4 · 118 Rejecting God and Redefining Faith Portrayals of Black Women's Spirituality chapter 5 · 156 Reshaping and Radicalizing Faith The Diasporic Vision and Practice of Hoodoo conclusion · 197 Fiction, Life, and ...
... salvation through faith. In neitherGo Tell It on the Mountain, The Souls of Black Folk, nor in life is faithful vision simplistic and otherworldly; oftentimes, it is a self-serving but powerful religious belief that relates to actions ...
... salvation, or that justifies what is beyond the scope of human understanding. Most broadly, faithful vision is the saving, sustaining belief that African Americans find collectively and individually in biblically based Christianity in ...
... salvation. Communal performance of and participation in the African American sermon figuratively represent the attainment of the ideal. The folk sermon communally ritualizes the Word in an open-ended process of visual and rhythmic oral ...
... if not intercession for divine salvation. However, this is still very much an ideal whose attainment is problematized by the reality of the American secular world beyond the African American church ritual that 32 faithful vision.
Contents
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03 Critiquing Christian Belief | 77 |
04 Rejecting God and Redefining Faith | 118 |
05 Reshaping and Radicalizing Faith | 156 |
Fiction Life and Faitful Vision | 197 |
Notes | 205 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 245 |
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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in ... James W. Coleman No preview available - 2009 |