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Honoring the Ancestors: An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature
Honoring the Ancestors An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature Author:Donald Henry Matthews This book has two major emphases: it is an analysis of the methods employed by social scientists, historians, and literary critics in the study of African American religion; and it is a constructive theological statement regarding African American religion. The Negro Spiritual serves as the source material for both purposes. Since the Spiritual ... more »is the earliest body of African American folk religious narration, Matthews posits that it holds the key to the interpretation of African American religion. In presenting the results of the seminal black scholars W. E. B. Du Bois and Zora Neale Hurston, the author traces the early development of an African centered approach to the interpretation of African American religion.« less