In The Cross of Christ in African American Christian Religious Experience: Piety, Politics, and Protest Demetrius K. Williams examines and explores the ideational importance and rhetorical function of cross language and terminology in the spirituals, conversion narratives, and Black preaching tradition through an ideological lens.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: The Cross of Christ and European Colonial Expansion
Chapter Two: The Cross of Christ and the Evangelization of the Enslaved
Chapter Three: The Cross of Christ in the Spirituals
Chapter Four: The Cross of Christ in Conversion Accounts and Testimonies of the Formerly Enslaved
Chapter Five: The Cross of Christ in Black Preaching
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
