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Activism in the name of God : religion and Black feminist public intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the present / edited by Jami L. Carlacio.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
- Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Religion.
- African Americans.
- Feminism--United States.
- Feminism.
- African American women--Religious life.
- African American women.
- African American women civil rights workers.
- Religion and politics--United States--History.
- Religion and politics.
- Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Racism.
- Race--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Race.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 346 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
- Summary:
- "An extensive collection that highlights the contributions of often-forgotten Black women in the public sphere."--Page [4] of cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Witnesses of the Spirit / Jami L. Carlacio
- Part I : Nineteenth Century : More Than "Mere" Rhetoric : Jarena Lee's Religious Experience Read through a Womanist Lens / Neely McLaughlin
- Journeys and Warnings : Nancy Prince's Resistant Truth-Telling in New England, Russia, and Jamaica / Cheryl J. Fish
- "Fishers of Men" : Understanding Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Poetry as Vocational Autobiography / Jennifer McFarlane-Harris
- Part II : Twentieth Century : Cultivating "Mass Intelligence" : Nannie Helen Burroughs and the Quest for Racial Justice / Angela Hornsby-Gutting
- The Gospel According to Madame E. Azalia Smith Hackley / Lisa Pertillar Brevard
- Mothers and the God of the Oppressed : Carrie Williams Clifford and a Literary Theology of Black Freedom / P. Jane Splawn
- Theressa Hoover : Black Feminist, Methodist, Southerner / Janet Allured
- The Life and Thought of Anna Arnold Hedgeman : A Pragmatic Christian Feminist / Hettie V. Williams
- "It Sings in Our Blood" : Pauli Murray's Re-Mattering of the World / Darcy Metcalfe
- Part III : Twenty-First Century : Sandy Speaks : The Digital Resurrection of Sandra Bland's Religious History / Phillip Luke Sinitiere
- "Black Feminist Love Evangelist" and "Prayer Poet Priestess" : Alexis Pauline Gumbs / Laura L. Sullivan
- "Love Wins" and Black Lives Matter : The Spiritual Underpinnings of Patrisse Cullors's Crusade for Justice / Jami L. Carlacio
- About the Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781496845689
- 1496845684
- OCLC:
- 1395963473
- Publisher Number:
- 99994544790
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