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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alphonso F. Saville IV, IVPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9781478030447ISBN 10: 1478030445 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 30 August 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviews“Offering new perspectives on eighteenth-century Black religious sensibilities in worlds of encounter and transformation, this exciting book reframes understandings of early Black Atlantic religion. Alphonso F. Saville IV uses John Marrant’s life to demonstrate a much more complex religious world of Black Christianity, leaving readers with new ways of understanding the results for Black people of religious encounter and the emergence of New World Africana religious ways of being. This approach is among the most exciting in the field.” -- Judith Weisenfeld, author of * New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration * Author InformationAlphonso F. Saville IV is Assistant Professor of American Religious History and Mission at Union Presbyterian Seminary. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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