Joy unspeakable :contemplative practices of the Black church /Barbara A. Holmes.
Description
Contemplation : a cultural and spiritual history -- Retrieving lost legacies : contemplation in West Africa -- Every shut eye ain't sleep : the inner life during slavery -- Come ye disconsolate : contemplation in Black church congregational life -- Joy comes in the morning : contemplative themes in African American Biblical interpretation -- Ain't gonna let nobody turn us around : contemplation, activism, and praxis -- At the crossroads : secular reclamations of the contemplative life.
xi, 212 p. ;22 cm.
Book Details
Author
Holmes, Barbara Ann
Place Published
City
Minneapolis
Date Published
circa 2004
Publication Subjects
African Americans--Religion.
Contemplation.
Call No.
BR563 .N4 H6536 2004
ISBN
0800636430 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004011251
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index.