Afro-Eccentricity Beyond the Standard Narrative of Black Religion
by Hart, William DavidFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-03-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Afro-Eccentricityexplores three overlapping stories of Black Religion: the Soul, Black Church, and Ancestor Narratives. Hart contends that these narratives dominate most accounts of Black Religion that, collectively, he calls the "Standard Narrative of Black Religion." Against the backdrop of this account, where Afro-Eccentricityis a pun and critical trope, Hart interprets Paule Marshall'sPraisesong for the Widowas a battlefield between Afrocentric and Afro-Eccentricversions of the Ancestor Narrative. Then he explores four theorists of Black ReligionCharles H. Long, William R. Jones, Cornel West, and Theophus Smithwhose works push against the limitations of the Standard Narrative.
Author Biography
William David Hart is a Professor of Religious Studies and affiliated faculty in the African American Studies Program at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. He is the author of Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture and Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis.
Table of Contents
Afro-Eccentricity * Three Narratives of Black Religion * Art and the Ancestor Narrative * The Archaeologist * The Renegade * The Prophet * The Conjuror * Concluding Remarks
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