“Hard Skies” and Bottomless Questions: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Epistemological “Opacity” in Black Religious Experience

Approaching Zora Neale Hurston as both a littérateur and cultural theorist who challenges conventional methodological and discursive boundaries, this article investigates her famous novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Drawing on Charles Long's category of “opacity” as a crucial factor in the dy...

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Main Author: Harvey, Marcus (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press [2016]
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 186-214
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hurston, Zora Neale 1891-1960, Their eyes were watching God / Blacks / Religious experience / Idea of God / Cognition theory
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BS Traditional African religions
CA Christianity
FD Contextual theology
KBQ North America
NBC Doctrine of God
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