Gospel of John Marrant - Conjuring Christianity in the Black Atlantic

Alphonso F. Saville IV examines the life Reverend John Marrant (1755–91), North America’s first Black ordained minister, to show how West African indigenous religious practices were central to his ministry and thought.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  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
Index

About the author

Alphonso F. Saville IV

Summary

Alphonso F. Saville IV examines the life Reverend John Marrant (1755–91), North America’s first Black ordained minister, to show how West African indigenous religious practices were central to his ministry and thought.

Product details

• Authors: Alphonso F Saville IV, Alphonso F. Saville IV
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781478030447
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-3044-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore