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Davis, Gerald L.

I Got the Word in Me and I Can Sing It, You Know : A Study of the Performed African-American Sermon / Gerald L. Davis. - 1 online resource (208 p.) : 20 illus. - Anniversary Collection .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- On the "Call" to Preach -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Finding the Wheat in the Chaff Considerations in the Study of the Performed African-American Sermon -- Chapter Two: Oral Formula and the Performed African-American Sermon -- Chapter Three: Characteristics and Functions of the Structural Units of the African-American Sermon -- Chapter Four: The Testing of the Performed African-American Sermon Model -- Appendix: The Full Texts of the Sermons -- "You're Just Not Ready" -- "He Wants Your Life: The Search for the Religion of Christ" -- "In Times Like These" -- "Ezekiel and the Vision of Dry Bones" -- Untitled Sermon -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.




Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780812279870 9781512801637

Standard No.: 10.9783/9781512801637 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African American preaching.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.

Subjects--Index Terms: Anthropology. Folklore. Linguistics.

LC Class. No.: BV4221 / .D38 1985

Dewey Class. No.: 251/.008996073