TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holmes,Barbara Ann
TI  - Joy unspeakable: contemplative practices of the Black church 
SN  - 150642161X
U1  - 248.3/408996073 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Minneapolis, MN
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Religion
KW  - Contemplation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207) and index; Introduction: An unlikely legacy -- Contemplation : a cultural and spiritual history -- Retrieving lost legacies : contemplation in West Africa -- Every shut eye ain't sleep : the inner life during slavery -- Come ye disconsolate : contemplation in black church congregational life -- Joy comes in the morning : contemplative themes in African American biblical interpretation -- Ain't gonna let nobody turn us around : contemplation, activism, and praxis -- Black lives matter and the black church : twenty-first-century contemplative activism -- Deep rivers : the contemplative presidency of Barack Hussein Obama -- At the crossroads : art, activism, and the contemplative life -- Afterword: Toward a future together
N2  - "The second edition of Joy Unspeakable focuses on the black church and points toward a mystical and communal spirituality not within the exclusive domain of any denomination. Holmes's research--through oral histories, church records, and written accounts--details not only ways in which contemplative experience is built into African American collective worship but also the legacy of African monasticism, a history of spiritual exemplars, spiritual and political activism, and unique meditative worship practices"--Cover
ER  -