The Irresistible Urge to Preach

by Calvin Peterson, William Myers, Rev Calvin E Peterson

This is a groundbreaking study in the African American religious experience. Never before has there been a published collection of oral African American ""call"" stories that treats them as a genre worthy of scholarly analysis. This volume of eighty-six stories was collected in tape-recorded interviews over a six year period from 1985 to 1991. Significantly, this unique, in-depth study represents at least eight different Christian denominations. Many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498278353
• ISBN13: 9781498278355
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"