Sing a new song
Subtitle: liberating Black hymnody
By: Jon Michael Spencer.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: African American churches -- Hymns -- History and criticism.; African American public worship.; Hymns, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
Description: Jon Michael Spencer's book steps into the intersection of African American life and Christian traditions. He tracks ways in which distortions within the biblical and theological traditions - notably their biases and myths about gender, race, and class - have infected even black Christianity. His learned and eloquent plea for a more critical Christianity has important implications for all churches.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and indexes.