num_pages: 226
description: This probing work examines how African-American slaves, through their appropriation of Christianity, found a resource that affirmed their sense of self-worth and identity, and a spirit of community that offered psychological and spiritual resistance to oppression. White evangelists extolled the benefits of converting slaves to Christianity, but the slaves discovered in the Bible a different message, shared among themselves in "dark symbols and obscure signs."
language: English
title: Dark Symbols, Obscure Signs: God, Self, and Community in the Slave Mind
titlecomplete: Dark Symbols, Obscure Signs: God, Self, and Community in the Slave Mind (The Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Studies in North American Black Religion, vo)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Orbis Books