Religion in African-American culture
By: edited by Winfried Herget, Alfred Hornung.
Contributors: Herget, Winfried, 1935-.; Hornung, Alfred.
Series: American studies -- v. 83; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 83.
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9783825309893
Subjects: African Americans -- Religion -- Congresses.; United States -- Religion -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: International conference proceedings.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Winfried Herget, Alfred Hornung; title: Between Catholicism and voodoo : the Creoles of color in Louisiana / Michel Fabre; title: The art of darkness : representations of the Obeah woman in British fiction / Kirsten Raupach; title: Black itinerant women preachers : conversion to empowerment, the example of Jarena Lee / Winfried Herget; title: James Weldon Johnson's biblical tuning of God's trombones / Manfred Siebald; title: "Plays of negro life" : African American religion as frame of reference in folk drama of the Harlem Renaissance / Kerstin Schmidt; title: Religion and Afro-Modernism : Claude McKay's transatlantic syncretism / Alfred Hornung; title: Mapping and mirroring : Nella Larsen's and Ralph Ellison's critiques of African American religion / Thadious M. Davis; title: ". . . trying to blow all life through . . a brass trombone" : Ralph Ellison preaches the blues / Robert G. O'Meally; title: The limits of religion and history : the African American intellectual in the twentieth century / Christopher Mulvey; title: Robert Hayden (1913-1980) : artistic integrity and religious belief / Nassim W. Balestrini; title: The Nation of Islam as an American religion / Frank Kelleter.