This far by faith : readings in African-American women's religious biography edited by Judith Weisenfeld and Richard Newman

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weisenfeld, Judith.

Newman, Richard, 1930-2003.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

African American women--Biography.

African American women.

Religious biography--United States.

Religious biography.

Women and religion--United States--Biography.

Women and religion.

Physical Description:

326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1996.

Contents:

Introduction: We have been Believers: Patterns of African-American Women's Religiosity / Judith Weisenfeld

1. The Harriet Powers Pictorial Quilts / Marie Jeanne Adams

2. Willie Mae Ford Smith of St. Louis: A Shaping Influence Upon Black Gospel Singing Style / William Thomas Dargan and Kathy White Bullock

3. Lucie E. Campbell Williams: A Cultural Biography / Charles Walker

4. Praying in the Shadows: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, A Look at Nineteenth-Century Black Catholic Spirituality / Thaddeus J. Posey

5. The Controversy Over Women's Ministry in the African Methodist Episcopal Church During the 1880s: The Case of Sarah Ann Hughes / Stephen Ward Angell

6. "Warrior Mother of Africa's Warriors of the Most High God": Laura Adorkor Kofey and the African Universal Church / Richard Newman

7. Mary Mcleod Bethune and the Methodist Episcopal Church North: In But Out / Clarence G. Newsome

8. Religion, Politics, and Gender: The Leadership of Nannie Helen Burroughs / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

9. A Black Woman in a White Man's Church: Amy E. Robbins and the Reorganization / Roger D. Launius

10. Minister and Feminist Reformer: The Life of Florence Spearing Randolph / Bettye Collier-Thomas

11. Elizabeth Mars Johnson Thomson (1807-1864): A Research Note / Randall K. Burkett

12. "Who is Sufficient for these Things?" Sara G. Stanley and the American Missionary Association, 1864-1868 / Judith Weisenfeld

13. Spelman's Emma B. Delaney and the African Mission / Sandy D. Martin

14. In Search of Harriet Tubman's Spiritual Autobiography / Jean M. Humez

15. Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth's Knowing and Becoming Known / Nell Irvin Painter

16. Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights / Grace Jordan McFadden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-318) and index.

ISBN:

041591311X (acid-free paper)

9780415913119 (acid-free paper)

0415913128 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

9780415913126 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

32819283

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