123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Christian Narrative and African American Racial Identity

Christian Narrative and African American Racial Identity

American Society of Church History 12

Saturday, January 3, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Madison Suite 2 (Sheraton New York)

Chair:

David W. Wills, Amherst College

Papers:

Race, Scriptures, and Colonial Temporalities: Olaudah Equiano's Narration of Biblical Origins
Sylvester A. Johnson, Indiana University at Bloomington

A Fairer Paradise: Eva Jessye's Spirituals and Racializations of Christian Narrative
Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University

“In His Own Image”: Constructing Blackness on the Stage in the Biblical Plays of May Miller and Willis Richardson
Craig Prentiss, Rockhurst University

Comment:

Barbara D. Savage, University of Pennsylvania

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