Donyelle C. McCray

Is It a Sermon? (eBook, ePUB)

Art, Activism, and Genre Fluidity in African American Preaching

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Is It a Sermon? is an informative and daring call to blur the boundaries of the sermon genre, exploring the "shoreline" of homiletics, or the place where preaching laps up against other modes of discourse. Focusing on African American preachers who play at the boundaries of the sermon genre, McCray explores how preaching merges with song, quilting, dance, prayer, storytelling, and activism. Genre play proves central to integrating ancestral wisdom in preaching.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Presbyterian Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781646983940
• Artikelnr.: 72352832

Autorenporträt

Donyelle C. McCray is Associate Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School. Her scholarship focuses on the ways African American women and laypeople use sermons to play, remember, invent, and disrupt. She is the author of The Censored Pulpit: Julian of Norwich as Preacher, co-author of A Surprising God: Advent Devotions for an Uncertain Time, and is researching the preaching and spirituality of the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. In a forthcoming documentary film and transmedia project, she collaborates with artists on theological responses to gentrification. Before becoming a homiletics professor, McCray served as an estate planning attorney. Existential questions emerged that led her to seminary and to ministry as a hospice chaplain. Consolation, compassion, and interdependence continue to be core themes in her scholarship.