Preacherly Texts: Zora Neale Hurston and the Homiletics of Literature

Zora Neale Hurston called African American preachers “the first artists” and understood their sermons as foundational to Black expressive culture. This essay reads closely in Hurston's anthropological writing on preachers and preaching (especially in “The Sanctified Church” and Mules and Men) t...

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Main Author: Harriss, M. Cooper (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: 278-290
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hurston, Zora Neale 1891-1960 / The Americas / Blacks / Preacher / Depiction / Homiletics
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBQ North America
RE Homiletics
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