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Chapter 16 - Gospel

from Part 2 - Social and Cultural Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2019

By
Leslie Wingard
Edited by
D. Quentin Miller
D. Quentin Miller
Affiliation:
Suffolk University, Massachusetts
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James Baldwin opposed gaps between categories like religion and politics or the strictly sacred and the secular. In The Fire Next Time (1963), he writes about the ripe potential for community change that some black churches harness and how churches and churchgoers who are not politically progressive enough waste that potential. According to Baldwin, “The church was very exciting. It took a long time for me to disengage myself from this excitement, and on the blindest, most visceral level, I really never have, and never will. There is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord.”

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James Baldwin in Context , pp. 169 - 176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Gospel
  • Edited by D. Quentin Miller, Suffolk University, Massachusetts
  • Book: James Baldwin in Context
  • Online publication: 12 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108636025.017
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  • Edited by D. Quentin Miller, Suffolk University, Massachusetts
  • Book: James Baldwin in Context
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  • Gospel
  • Edited by D. Quentin Miller, Suffolk University, Massachusetts
  • Book: James Baldwin in Context
  • Online publication: 12 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108636025.017
Available formats
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