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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Bus Tour of the Study of African American Preaching -- Folk Preaching and Educated Preaching -- The Paucity of Academic Study of African American Preaching -- The Study of African American Preaching before Martin Luther King Jr. -- The Study of African American Preaching after Martin Luther King Jr. -- African American Women and Womanists -- Taxonomy of the Study of African American Preaching -- Chapter Two: Negro Expression, Signifying, and the Rhetoric of African American Preaching -- The Historical Relationship between Homiletics and Rhetoric -- Zora Neale Hurston and the Oral Tradition of Black Preaching -- Signifying and African American Preaching -- Chapter Three: "It's Alright Now": A Rhetorical Analysis of Gardner C. Taylor's Sermon "His Own Clothes" -- Characteristics of African American Preaching -- Black Preaching: Henry H. Mitchell and Cleophus J. LaRue -- Black Preaching and Rhetorical Criticism -- Close Reading of "His Own Clothes" -- Chapter Four: "Keepin' It Real": The Validity of the Existentially Authentic Performance -- Jay-Z and Criteria for the Real -- The Logic of the Lyrics -- The Emotional Truth That Supports the Lyrics -- The Human Motivation the MC Fills In -- Getting Even the Smallest Detail Right -- Chapter Five: The Truth Is Always Relevant: Race and Economics in Contemporary African American Preaching -- The Truth Is Always Relevant -- The Civil Rights Movement and the New Movement -- The Bigger Subjects for Millennials and Gen-Xers -- Tension Points: The New Movement and the Church -- The Church and the New Movement -- Taking the Long View -- Afterword: "Seven Decades of African American Preaching"by Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

Introduction -- Chapter One: The Bus Tour of the Study of African American Preaching : Folk Preaching and Educated Preaching -- The Paucity of Academic Study of African American Preaching -- The Study of African American Preaching before Martin Luther King Jr. -- The Study of African American Preaching after Martin Luther King Jr. -- African American Women and Womanists -- Taxonomy of the Study of African American Preaching -- Chapter Two: Negro Expression, Signifying, and the Rhetoric of African American Preaching : The Historical Relationship between Homiletics and Rhetoric -- Zora Neale Hurston and the Oral Tradition of Black Preaching -- Signifying and African American Preaching -- Chapter Three: "It's Alright Now": A Rhetorical Analysis of Gardner C. Taylor's Sermon "His Own Clothes" : Characteristics of African American Preaching -- Black Preaching: Henry H. Mitchell and Cleophus J. LaRue -- Black Preaching and Rhetorical Criticism -- Close Reading of "His Own Clothes" -- Chapter Four: "Keepin' It Real": The Validity of the Existentially Authentic Performance : Jay-Z and Criteria for the Real -- The Logic of the Lyrics -- The Emotional Truth That Supports the Lyrics -- The Human Motivation the MC Fills In -- Getting Even the Smallest Detail Right -- Chapter Five: The Truth Is Always Relevant: Race and Economics in Contemporary African American Preaching : The Truth Is Always Relevant -- The Civil Rights Movement and the New Movement -- The Bigger Subjects for Millennials and Gen-Xers -- Tension Points: The New Movement and the Church -- The Church and the New Movement -- Taking the Long View -- Afterword: "Seven Decades of African American Preaching" / by Jeremiah A. Wright Jr -- Selected Bibliography of African American Preaching -- Appendix A: "His Own Clothes" / by Gardner Calvin Taylor.

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"The Introduction to African American Preaching is an important, groundbreaking book. This book acknowledges African American preaching as an academic discipline, and invites all students and preachers into a scholarly, dynamic, and useful exploration of the topic. Author Frank Thomas opens with a "bus tour" study of African American preaching. He shows how African American preaching has gradually moved from an almost exclusively oral to an oral/written tradition. Readers will gain insight into the history of the study of the African American preaching tradition, and catch the author's enthusiasm for it. Next Thomas traces the relationship between homiletics and rhetoric in Western preaching, demonstrating how African American preaching is inherently theological and rhetorical. He then explores the question, "what is black preaching?" Thomas introduces the reader to methods of "close reading" and "ideological criticism." And then demonstrates how to use these methods, using a sermon by Gardner Calvin Taylor as his example. The next chapter considers the question, "what is excellence in black preaching?" The next chapter seeks to create bridges and dialogue within the field of homiletics, and in particular, the Euro-American homiletic tradition. The goal of this chapter is to clearly demonstrate connections between the African American preaching tradition and the field of homiletics. Thomas next turns to questions about the relevancy of the church to the Millennial generation. Specifically, how will the African American church remain relevant to this generation, which is so deeply concerned with social justice?" -- Provided by publisher.

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