This Far By Faith (eBook, PDF)

Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography
Redaktion: Weisenfeld, Judith; Newman, Richard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This Far By Faith brings together a collection of essays on the religious identities and experiences of African-American women. Spanning from the period of slavery to the present, the essays profile American figures such as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Willie Mae Ford Smith, exploring the role that religious institutions and impulses played in their lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136663512
• Artikelnr.: 40831651

Autorenporträt

Judith Weisenfeld is Assistant Professor of Religion at Barnard College. Richard Newman is with the DuBois Institute, Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction We Have Been Believers: Patterns of African-American Women's Religiosity
Judith Weisenfeld; Part 1 African-American Women's Religious Arts; Chapter 1 The Harriet Powers Pictorial Quilts
Marie Jeanne Adams; Chapter 2 Willie Mae Ford Smith of St. Louis: A Shaping Influence upon Black Gospel Singing Style
William Thomas Dargan
Kathy White Bullock; Chapter 3 Lucie E. Campbell Williams a Cultural Biography
Reverend Charles Walker; Part 2 African-American Women and Church Institutions; Chapter 4 Praying in the Shadows: The Oblate Sisters of Providence
a Look at Nineteenth-Century Black Catholic Spirituality
Thaddeus J. Posey
O.F.M. Cap; Chapter 5 ::
Stephen Ward Angell; Chapter 6 ::
Richard Newman; Chapter 7 Mary McLeod Bethune and the Methodist Episcopal Church North: In But Out
Clarence G. Newsome; Chapter 8 Religion
Politics
and Gender: The Leadership of Nannie Helen Burroughs
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham; Chapter 9 A Black Woman in a White Man's Church: Amy E. Robbins and the Reorganization
Roger D. Launius; Chapter 10 Minister and Feminist Reformer: The Life of Florence Spearing Randolph
Bettye Collier-Thomas; Part 3 African-American Women and Christian Missions; Chapter 11 Elizabeth Mars Johnson Thomson (1807-1864): A Research Note
Randall K. Burkett; Chapter 12 "Who is Sufficient for These Things?" Sara G. Stanley and the American Missionary Association
1864-1868
Judith Weisenfeld; Chapter 13 Spelman's Emma B. Delaney and the African Mission
Sandy D. Martin; Part 4 African-American Women
Religion
and Activism; Chapter 14 In Search of Harriet Tubman's Spiritual Autobiography
Jean M. Humez; Chapter 15 Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth's Knowing And Becoming Known
Nell Irvin Painter; Chapter 16 Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights
Grace Jordan Mcfadden;