The Gospel of John Marrant

Name: The Gospel of John Marrant
Brand: Duke University Press
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By Saville IV IV, Alphonso F.

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The Reverend John Marrant (1755-91) was North America's first Black ordained minister and one of America's earliest Black authors and preachers. In The Gospel of John Marrant, Alphonso F. Saville IV examines how Protestantism and West African indigenous religious practices deeply informed his life and ministry. Saville follows Marrant from his time evangelizing the Cherokee in Georgia to meeting with Black Freemasons in Boston to engaging with diasporic communities along the Eastern Seaboard and in England. Using the Black folk magic tradition of conjure as a lens for understanding Marrant's religious imagination, Saville outlines the importance of Africana religious and cultural themes, symbols, and cosmologies in the biblical interpretation and ritual culture of early Black North American Christian communities. Marrant's life and work, Saville contends, reveal the diverse religious cultures that contributed to the formation of African American Christianity and its evolution into a prominent institution during the colonial and early history of the United States. In so doing, he demonstrates the need to recenter both religion and Africa in the study of African American cultural and intellectual history.

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Number of Pages:: 208
Release Date:: 2024-08-30
Publication Date:: 2024-08-30
Publisher:: Duke University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1478026219
ISBN13:: 9781478026211
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 496 g
Height:: 157 cm
Width:: 235 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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