001479508 000__ 04929nam\a22008175i\4500 001479508 001__ 1479508 001479508 003__ DE-B1597 001479508 005__ 20231026035057.0 001479508 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479508 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479508 008__ 230918t20132013nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479508 020__ $$a9780814708408 001479508 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814707951.001.0001$$2doi 001479508 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547831 001479508 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479508 0410_ $$aeng 001479508 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479508 050_4 $$aPN2270.A35$$bP74 2016 001479508 072_7 $$aREL000000$$2bisacsh 001479508 08204 $$a792.08996073$$223 001479508 1001_ $$aPrentiss, Craig R., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479508 24510 $$aStaging Faith :$$bReligion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II /$$cCraig R. Prentiss. 001479508 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2013] 001479508 264_4 $$c©2013 001479508 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479508 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479508 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479508 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479508 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479508 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tIllustrations -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Setting the Stage -- $$t2. New Territory -- $$t3. Lynching and the Faraway God -- $$t4. Caught within the Shadow -- $$t5. Blackness in the Image of God -- $$tConclusion -- $$tList of Acronyms -- $$tnotes -- $$tSelected Bibliography -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479508 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479508 520__ $$aIn the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive migration from the rural south to the urban-industrial centers of the north, scripts penned by dozens of black playwrights reflected cultural tensions, often rooted in class, that revealed competing conceptions of religion's role in the formation of racial identity.Black playwrights pointed in quite different ways toward approaches to church, scripture, belief, and ritual that they deemed beneficial to the advancement of the race. Their plays were important not only in mirroring theological reflection of the time, but in helping to shape African American thought about religion in black communities. The religious themes of these plays were in effect arguments about the place of religion in African American lives.In Staging Faith, Craig R. Prentiss illuminates the creative strategies playwrights used to grapple with religion. With a lively and engaging style, the volume brings long forgotten plays to life as it chronicles the cultural and religious fissures that marked early twentieth century African American society.Craig R. Prentiss is Professor of Religious Studies at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the editor of Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction (New York University Press, 2003). 001479508 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479508 546__ $$aIn English. 001479508 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001479508 650_0 $$aAfrican American theater$$xHistory$$y20th century. 001479508 650_0 $$aAmerican drama$$xAfrican American authors$$xHistory and criticism. 001479508 650_0 $$aReligion in literature. 001479508 650_0 $$aTheater$$xReligious aspects. 001479508 650_4 $$aRELIGION / General$$2sh. 001479508 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479508 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tNew York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$z9783110706444 001479508 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780814707951 001479508 852__ $$bebk 001479508 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814708408$$zOnline Access 001479508 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479508$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479508 912__ $$a978-3-11-070644-4 New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479508 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479508 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001479508 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479508 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479508 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001479508 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479508 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001479508 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479508 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001479508 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479508 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001479508 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479508 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001479508 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479508 980__ $$aBIB 001479508 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479508 982__ $$aEbook 001479508 983__ $$aOnline