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Between Sundays : Black women and everyday struggles of faith / Marla F. Frederick.
LIBRA BR563.N4 F73 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frederick, Marla Faye, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Religious life.
- African American women.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 263 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- To be a woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understanding expresses itself in everyday practices of faith is the subject of Between Sundays, an innovative work that takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow assumptions about black religion and into the actual complexities of African American women's spiritual lives.
- Contents:
- First Sunday - Introduction 1
- Revival - Strange Meetings 30
- Prophetic Engagement
- Monday - "Of the Meaning of Progress" 39
- Tuesday - Gratitude and Empathy 63
- Revival - Reading Church History 82
- Wednesday - Righteous Discontent 92
- Revival - "Are We a Church or a Social Change Organization?" 122
- Priestly Transformation
- Thursday - Televangelism (and Shifting Discourses of Progress) 131
- Revival - "Loosed Women" 160
- Friday - Financial Priorities 166
- Saturday - Sexual Politics 186
- Second Sunday - Conclusion 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520233921
- 0520233948
- OCLC:
- 50942030
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