Community Text Arises: A Literate Text and a Literacy Tradition in African-American Churches

by Beverly J. Moss

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572733950
• ISBN13: 9781572733954
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.