The Gospel of John Marrant
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The Gospel of John Marrant

Conjuring Christianity in the Black Atlantic

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Gospel of John Marrant

Conjuring Christianity in the Black Atlantic

About this book

The Reverend John Marrant (1755–91) was North America's first Black ordained minister and one of America's earliest Black authors and preachers. In The Gospel of John Marrant, Alphonso F. Saville IV examines how Protestantism and West African indigenous religious practices deeply informed his life and ministry. Saville follows Marrant from his time evangelizing the Cherokee in Georgia to meeting with Black Freemasons in Boston to engaging with diasporic communities along the Eastern Seaboard and in England. Using the Black folk magic tradition of conjure as a lens for understanding Marrant's religious imagination, Saville outlines the importance of Africana religious and cultural themes, symbols, and cosmologies in the biblical interpretation and ritual culture of early Black North American Christian communities. Marrant's life and work, Saville contends, reveal the diverse religious cultures that contributed to the formation of African American Christianity and its evolution into a prominent institution during the colonial and early history of the United States. In so doing, he demonstrates the need to recenter both religion and Africa in the study of African American cultural and intellectual history.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. “No Continuing City”: Colonial Black Religion during Marrant’s Early Life
  6. Chapter 2. “Prepare to Meet Thy God”: Conjuring Initiation in Marrant’s Narrative
  7. Chapter 3. Exodus: Conjuring Retaliation in Marrant’s Narrative
  8. Chapter 4. “My Travels in Nova Scotia”: Ritual Healing and Communal Restoration in Marrant’s Journal
  9. Chapter 5. “As Men and as Masons”: Spiritual Genealogies and Racial Ethnogenesis in Marrant’s Sermon
  10. Epilogue
  11. Notes
  12. Selected Bibliography
  13. Index