The Gospel of John Marrant - Alphonso F. Saville IV  IV

The Gospel of John Marrant

Conjuring Christianity in the Black Atlantic
Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2621-1 (ISBN)
103,50 inkl. MwSt
Alphonso F. Saville IV examines the life Reverend John Marrant (1755–91), North America’s first Black ordained minister, to show how West African indigenous religious practices were central to his ministry and thought.
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.

Alphonso F. Saville IV is Assistant Professor of American Religious History and Mission at Union Presbyterian Seminary.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4780-2621-9 / 1478026219
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-2621-1 / 9781478026211
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