Alphonso F. Saville IV

The Gospel of John Marrant

Conjuring Christianity in the Black Atlantic

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Produktbeschreibung

Using the Black folk magic tradition of conjure as a lens for understanding Reverend John Marrantâ s religious imagination, Alphonso F. Saville IV outlines the importance of Africana religious and cultural themes, symbols, and cosmologies in the biblical interpretation and ritual culture in early Black North American Christian communities.

Produktdetails

• Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030447
• ISBN-10: 1478030445
• Artikelnr.: 69522863

Autorenporträt

Alphonso F. Saville IV

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. “No Continuing City”: Colonial Black Religion during Marrant’s Early
Life  13
2. “Prepare to Meet Thy God”: Conjuring Initiation in Marrant’s Narrative 
35
3. Exodus: Conjuring Retaliation in Marrant’s Narrative  61
4. “My Travels in Nova Scotia”: Ritual Healing and Communal Restoration
in Marrant’s Journal  85
5. “As Men and as Masons”: Spiritual Genealogies and Racial Ethnogenesis in
Marrant’s Sermon  119
Epilogue  143
Notes  151
Selected Bibliography  175
Index