Is It a Sermon?: Art, Activism, and Genre Fluidity in African American Preaching

by Donyelle C. McCray

Is It a Sermon? is an informative and daring call to blur the boundaries of the sermon genre, exploring the "shoreline" of homiletics, or the place where preaching laps up against other modes of discourse.

In this book, Donyelle McCray explores how preaching merges with prayer, song, performance, and activism--the gospel dancing in and out of the forms we create for it. Consider the sermonic performance of Isaiah walking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664266878
• ISBN13: 9780664266875
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"