Howard Thurman and the Roots of a Black Mystical Aesthetic

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Mystic and philosopher of religion Howard W. Thurman interrogates the meaning of religious experience throughout the 20th century. His book Deep River and the Negro Speaks of Life and Death (Thurman, 1975) reveals that to understand Black mystical experience is to consider the song tradition of the enslaved. In his research he finds, what I call, a Black mystical aesthetic. He extends this Black mystical aesthetic to understand and narrate his own experiences with mysticism. This essay explores more fully the roots of this mystical ethical orientation and its moral, aesthetic, and democratic tendencies. Thurman's Black mystical aesthetic was mediated out of ordinary experience to limn suffering in order to rehumanize it.

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