While many of the most significant black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century have been perceived as secular Josef Sorett demonstrates in this book that religion was actually a fertile, fluid and formidable force within these movements. Spirit in the Dark examines how African American literary visions were animated and organized by religion and spirituality, from the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movementof the 1960s.
While many of the most significant black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century have been perceived as secular Josef Sorett demonstrates in this book that religion was actually a fertile, fluid and formidable force within these movements. Spirit in the Dark examines how African American literary visions were animated and organized by religion and spirituality, from the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movementof the 1960s.
Josef Sorett is Assistant Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Columbia University, where he is also directs the Center for African-American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice.
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Prologue and Acknowledgements Introduction: Church, Spirit, and the History of Racial Aesthetics 1. The Church and the Negro Spirit 2. Ancestral Spirits 3. Catholic Spirits 4. As the Spirit Moves 5. An International Spirit 6. That Spirit is Black 7. Contrary Spirits Epilogue: You Can't Keep a Good Church Down! Notes Index
Prologue and Acknowledgements Introduction: Church, Spirit, and the History of Racial Aesthetics 1. The Church and the Negro Spirit 2. Ancestral Spirits 3. Catholic Spirits 4. As the Spirit Moves 5. An International Spirit 6. That Spirit is Black 7. Contrary Spirits Epilogue: You Can't Keep a Good Church Down! Notes Index
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