The Glory Road Garner, Anita Faye
2021, 2021-04-13
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Stories and songs from a childhood spent in a vanished world of revivals and road shows Anita Faye Garner grew up in the South-just about every corner of it. She and her musical family lived in ...Texarkana, Bossier City, Hot Springs, Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Pascagoula, Bogalusa, Biloxi, Gulfport, New Orleans, and points between, picking up sticks every time her father, a Pentecostal preacher known as 'Brother Ray,' took over a new congregation. In between jump-starting churches, Brother Ray took his wife and kids out on the gospel revival circuit as the Jones Family Singers. Ray could sing and play, and 'Sister Fern' (Mama) was a celebrated singer and songwriter, possessed of both talent and beauty. Rounding out the band were the young Garner (known as Nita Faye then) and her big brother Leslie Ray. At all-day singings and tent revivals across the South, the Joneses made a joyful noise for the faithful and loaded into the car for the next stage of their tour. But growing up gospel wasn't always joyous. The kids practically raised and fended for themselves, bonding over a shared dislike of their rootless life and strict religious upbringing. Sister Fern dreamed of crossing over from gospel to popular music and recording a hit record. An unlikely combination of preacher's wife and glamorous performer, she had the talent and presence to make a splash, and her remarkable voice brought Saturday night rock and roll to Sunday morning music. Always singing, performing, and recording at the margins of commercial success, Sister Fern shared a backing band with Elvis Presley and wrote songs recorded by Johnny Cash and many other artists. In her touching memoir The Glory Road, Anita Faye Garner re-creates her remarkable upbringing. The story begins with Ray's attempts to settle down and the family's inevitable return to the gospel circuit and concludes with Sister Fern's brushes with stardom and the family's journey west to California where they finally landed-with some unexpected detours along the way. The Glory Road carries readers back to the 1950s South and the intersections of faith and family at the very roots of American popular music.
Despite its apparent geographical restriction, the translation “the Judeans” for the Johannine expression οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι has gained many supporters in the past decade. This trend may have been ...influenced by the view of Steve Mason (2007) that the translation “the Judeans” is not limited to a geographical meaning but is inclusive of religious and political connotations as well. Subsequently, he posits that the term οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι should be translated “the Judeans” as it captures best the ethnic centrality of Judea in the lives of concurrent Ἰουδαῖοι as evinced, for example, in the writings of Flavius Josephus. This proposal calls our attention since we know that the Fourth Gospel was composed in the same generation, prompting us to ask whether we should also consider the rendition “the Judeans” for οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι or not. To answer this question, this article explores John’s ethnic portrayal of the Ἰουδαῖοι in his narrative and juxtaposes it with the Josephan understanding. Recognising the ambiguous and fluid nature of ethnic identification in the writings of John and Josephus, this article argues that the translation “the Judeans”—within Mason’s reasoning—does not match the contested ethnic context of the Johannine narrative.
Despite its apparent geographical restriction, the translation “the Judeans” for the Johannine expression οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι has gained many supporters in the past decade. This trend may have been ...influenced by the view of Steve Mason (2007) that the translation “the Judeans” is not limited to a geographical meaning but is inclusive of religious and political connotations as well. Subsequently, he posits that the term οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι should be translated “the Judeans” as it captures best the ethnic centrality of Judea in the lives of concurrent Ἰουδαῖοι as evinced, for example, in the writings of Flavius Josephus. This proposal calls our attention since we know that the Fourth Gospel was composed in the same generation, prompting us to ask whether we should also consider the rendition “the Judeans” for οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι or not. To answer this question, this article explores John’s ethnic portrayal of the Ἰουδαῖοι in his narrative and juxtaposes it with the Josephan understanding. Recognising the ambiguous and fluid nature of ethnic identification in the writings of John and Josephus, this article argues that the translation “the Judeans”—within Mason’s reasoning—does not match the contested ethnic context of the Johannine narrative.
In this ambitious book on southern gospel music, Douglas Harrison reexamines the music's historical emergence and its function as a modern cultural phenomenon. Rather than seeing the music as a ...single rhetoric focusing on the afterlife as compensation for worldly sacrifice, Harrison presents southern gospel as a network of interconnected messages that evangelical Christians use to make individual sense of both Protestant theological doctrines and their own lived experiences. Harrison explores how listeners and consumers of southern gospel integrate its lyrics and music into their own religious experience, building up individual--and potentially subversive--meanings beneath a surface of evangelical consensus._x000B__x000B_Reassessing the contributions of such figures as Aldine Kieffer, James D. Vaughan, and Bill and Gloria Gaither, Then Sings My Soul traces an alternative history of southern gospel in the twentieth century, one that emphasizes the music's interaction with broader shifts in American life beyond the narrow confines of southern gospel's borders. Harrison's discussion includes the "gay-gospel paradox"--the experience of non-heterosexuals in gospel music--as emblematic of fundamentalism's conflict with the postmodern world.
Often times, a written piece unfolds with a presentation which is somewhat introductory in nature. In this sphere, the preamble of the subject matter is unveiled and this tends to form the framework ...of the whole literature; in fact, a clear picture of the foreword helps the reader, audience or interpreter unravel the message of the piece because the prologue serves as a key to unlock several other parts of the book. This understanding seems inherent in the Gospel of John, one of the books that present the account of Jesus’ ministry on earth. Although, the book of John has been widely controversial, its prologue (1:1-18) is an integral portion in the account and it has received a great deal of attention because of its wholeness and its importance to the book in its entirety. This study critically engages the prologue of the Johannine Gospel with the view of ascertaining its significance and importance to the Gospel account as a whole.
The purpose of this study is to describe the socio-religious life in Kampung Laut, Cilacap, Central Java, which lives in harmony and harmony in the midst of the diversity of beliefs that exist in ...society. The development of the Kampung Laut community has socio-religious characteristics for the southern coastal community. The diversity of the religious population is not a cause that can cause conflict in the Kampung Laut community. Muslims and Christians live without interfering with the worship practices and rituals of followers of other religions. The focus of this study is to analyze the interaction between religious communities, especially between Christians and Muslims in Kampung Laut as the implementation of the teachings of the Bible and the Qur'an. The specification of this research is descriptive qualitative, which is stated by the respondents in writing or verbally as well as real behavior, which is studied and studied in its entirety. The data that has been obtained is processed using the Miles and Huberman model which includes data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions or verification. Research shows that Christians apply the values in the Bible and so do Muslims apply the teachings of the Qur'an in social life. Then, the values of harmony that they carry out in life are in the Holy Scriptures such as the Bible and the Qur'an which create harmony in social life.
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