Word, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, the Bible, and the Rights of African Americans

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-361
Author(s):  
Leigh Fought
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Maria Stewart

scholarly journals SPIRITUALITY IN CHRONIC PAIN SELF-MANAGEMENT: LOWER USE BUT EQUAL IMPORTANCE IN OLDER AFRICAN AMERICANS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S394-S394
Author(s):  
Staja Booker
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Social Determinant ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Christian Literature

Abstract Spirituality is a key social determinant of health for African Americans (AAs) and strongly impacts management of chronic pain. Older AAs (average age 68± 12.37) from urban and rural communities completed questionnaires (N= 110) and audio-recorded, semi-structured individual interviews (N= 18) describing osteoarthritis pain self-management. Prayer was used by 42% of AAs, with substantially fewer attending church (23.6%), watching religious television or reading the Bible/Christian literature (20.9%), listening to gospel music (18.2%), and laying of hands (8.2%). Interestingly, prayer and church attendance were the only pain strategies rated by more participants as very helpful. Regardless of religiosity, most AAs believed that spirituality was “an important aspect, whether we realize it always or not”. Specifically, prayer was considered “number one… ‘cause I know it’s gonna be all right once I do pray…prayer help heal the pain”. Spiritual strategies remain integral for chronic pain self-management despite lower than expected use among AAs.

The Bible in African American Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
The Bible ◽  
African Descendants ◽  
King James Bible ◽  
British Colonies

The chapter explores the motivations for the use of the Christian Bible in distinctive temporal arcs within African American culture. Initially, the chapter acknowledges the oddity of an African American affinity with the Bible because that Bible was deployed to support the enslavement and perpetual exploitation of African descendants in the British colonies that later became the United States. Then, it articulates three reasons for the aforementioned affinity: the availability of the Bible (especially the King James Bible) to provide a language world for personal and collective expression; the versatility or pliability of the Bible in the imagination of African Americans as they repeatedly and creatively read their own identities through the struggles of the characters of the Bible; and the perceived persuasiveness of the Bible in some of the heated debates with which the larger US public has been engaged since its inception.

Reckoning with Race and Performing the Good News

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-54
Author(s):  
Vincent E. Bacote
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Good News ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Good For ◽  
Ready To Learn ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Evangelical Movement ◽  
Evangelical Theology

Abstract The “good news” is central to evangelical theology and the movement known as evangelicalism, but the news has not always been good for minorities who inhabit evangelical communities and institutions in the United States. Vincent Bacote argues a reckoning with questions of race is necessary for evangelical theology to help cultivate an evangelical movement more hospitable to minorities, particularly African-Americans. Evangelicalism is here regarded not only as a set of beliefs about the Bible, Christ’s work on the cross, conversion and witness but also as a set of dispositions and postures that create openness to the concerns of minorities. With a perpetually uneasy conscience, Christians within the evangelical movement can cultivate a disposition ready to learn from the questions and contributions of minorities in evangelical spaces, such as William Bentley and Carl Ellis. A better evangelical theology is proposed as doctrines that yield actions that are truly good news for all.

Nineteenth-Century American Biblical Interpretation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Noll
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Bible And Slavery

Nineteenth-century interpretation reflected traditional Protestant devotion to scripture and hermeneutical conventions from American experience, especially the democratic empowerment of ordinary people and a republican resentment of intellectual aristocracy. In the antebellum era, interpretations flowed from long-standing Protestant convictions adjusted to republican common sense. Contention over the Bible and slavery generated the sharpest differences. After false starts from Tom Paine in the 1790s and a few New Englanders in the 1840s, modern biblical criticism affected interpretations from the 1870s. In the postbellum era, some Protestants adopted a more liberal understanding of scripture because of the earlier standoffs over slavery. Groups previously marginalized (Catholics, Jews, skeptics, women, African Americans) also became more visible.

The Bible and African Americans:

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Vincent L. Wimbush
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
The Bible
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