Jesus in the African Canon
Boykin SandersPaperback 2012-05-01
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Boykin Sanders observes that some of the most important themes in African-American spirituals concerning Jesus, including the theme that he "Never Said a Mumblin' Word," are at odds with the bibical accounts. How did African slaves arrive at these themes, if not by deriving them from the Bibles being read on plantations in the antebellum South? Sanders contends that another canon, a distinctly African canon shaped by centuries of ritualization in African society and the disruptive experience of slavery in the United States, shaped a different and vital experience of Jesus.
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Publisher Description
Boykin Sanders observes that some of the most important themes in African-American spirituals concerning Jesus, including the theme that he "Never Said a Mumblin' Word," are at odds with the bibical accounts. How did African slaves arrive at these themes, if not by deriving them from the Bibles being read on plantations in the antebellum South? Sanders contends that another canon, a distinctly African canon shaped by centuries of ritualization in African society and the disruptive experience of slavery in the United States, shaped a different and vital experience of Jesus.