A community text arises : a literate text and a literacy tradition in African-American churches

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Title:

A community text arises : a literate text and a literacy tradition in African-American churches

Author:

Moss, Beverly J.

ISBN:

9781572733954

9781572733961

Personal Author:

Moss, Beverly J.

Publication Information:

Creskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, 2003.

Physical Description:

ix, 177 p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Language and social processes

Contents:

Introduction: Literacy in African American Churches: A Conversation Between the Academy and the Church Begins -- 1. African-American Church as Community -- 2. Entering the Communities -- 3. Creating a Community Within the Sermons -- 4. Broadening the Community Boundaries Through the Text: Reverend M. in a New Congregation -- 5. The Emergence of a Community Text.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Education.

African American churches.

Literacy -- United States.

Church work -- United States.

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Summary

A Community Text Arises emerges from an ethnographic study of literacy in three African-American churches. These data illuminate the ways that the primary model of a literate text is shaped and used in African-American churches. Chapter 1 examines how the African-American church has operated as a community within the larger African-American communities. Chapter 2 introduces, through ethnographic descriptions, the churches that the authors studies and Chapter 3 highlights the features of the major literacy event and text in African-American churches - the sermon. Through close analysis of individual sermons the author illustrates how the sermon functions as a community text. Chapter 4 focuses solely on the sermons of one minister to highlight rhetorical strategies that are used to create and main community identity. The analysis in chapters 3 and 4 provides a view of a text that calls into question traditionally held notions of text inside and outside the community. Therefore, chapter 5 deals with the implications of this study for how text is defined and the relation between oral and written texts.