Activism in the name of God : religion and Black feminist public intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the present / edited by Jami L. Carlacio ; [contributors, Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio [and nine others]].
| Other author/creator | Carlacio, Jami L., 1964- editor, contributor. |
| Other author/creator | Allured, Janet, contributor. |
| Other author/creator | Brevard, Lisa Pertillar, contributor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2023. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2023 |
| Description | x, 346 pages ; 24 cm. |
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| Series | Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies. ^A446952 |
| Contents | Introduction : Witnesses of the Spirit -- Nineteenth Century -- More Than "Mere" Rhetoric : Jarena Lee's Religious Experience Read through a Womanist Lens -- Journeys and Warnings : Nancy Prince's Resistant Truth-Telling in New England, Russia, and Jamaica -- "Fishers of Men" : Understanding Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Poetry as Vocational Autobiography -- Twentieth Century -- Cultivating "Mass Intelligence" : Nannie Helen Burroughs and the Quest for Racial Justice -- The Gospel According to Madame E. Azalia Smith Hackley -- Mothers and the God of the Oppressed : Carrie Williams Clifford and a Literary Theology of Black Freedom -- Theressa Hoover : Black Feminist, Methodist, Southerner -- The Life and Thought of Anna Arnold Hedgeman : A Pragmatic Christian Feminist -- "It Sings in Our Blood" : Pauli Murray's Re-Mattering of the World -- Twenty-First Century -- Sandy Speaks : The Digital Resurrection of Sandra Bland's Religious History -- "Black Feminist Love Evangelist" and "Prayer Poet Priestess" : Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- "Love Wins" and Black Lives Matter : The Spiritual Underpinnings of Patrisse Cullors's Crusade for Justice -- About the Contributors -- Index |
| Abstract | "Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present recognizes and celebrates twelve Black feminists who have made an indelible mark not just on Black women's intellectual history but on American intellectual history in general. The volume includes essays on Jarena Lee, Theressa Hoover, Pauli Murray, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, to name a few. These women's commitment to the social, political, and economic well-being of oppressed people in the United States shaped their work in the public sphere, which took the form of preaching, writing, singing, marching, presiding over religious institutions, teaching, assuming leadership roles in the civil rights movement, and creating politically subversive print and digital art. This anthology offers readers exemplars with whose minds and spirits we can engage, from whose ideas we can learn, and upon whose social justice work we can build. The volume joins a burgeoning chorus of texts that calls attention to the creativity of Black women who galvanized their readers, listeners, and fellow activists to seek justice for the oppressed. Pushing back on centuries of institutionalized injustices that have relegated Black women to the sidelines, the work of these Black feminist public intellectuals reflects both Christian gospel ethics and non-Christian religious traditions that celebrate the wholeness of Black people." -- page 4, back cover. |
| General note | Contributors statement from pages 337-340. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2023012271 |
| ISBN | 9781496845672 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1496845676 (hardback) |
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