Jesus, Jobs, and Justice African American Women and Religion

Name: Jesus, Jobs, and Justice African American Women and Religion
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ISBN: 9781400044207

ISBN-10: 1400044200

ISBN-13: 9781400044207

Edition: 2010

Authors: Bettye Collier-Thomas

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This groundbreaking book begins with slavery and gives us a remarkable account of the religious faith, social and political activism, and extraordinary resilience of black women during the centuries of American growth and change. Collier-Thomas makes clear that while religion has been a guiding force in the lives of most African Americans, for black women it has been essential. As co-creators of churches, black women were a central factor in their development. Collier-Thomas explores the ways in which women had to cope with sexism in black churches as well as racism in mostly white denominations in their efforts to create missionary societies and form women's conventions; and how, within…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/2/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 736
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English

Bettye Collier-Thomas is Professor of History and Director of the Center for African-American History and Culture at Temple University. She is the author of Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons and co-author, with V.P. Franklin, of My Soul is a Witness: A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1965.



List of Illustration


Prologue



"Soul Hunger": Li Slavery and Freedom



"Taxation Without Representation": Religious Leadership



"A Woman's Church Within the Church": The Woman's Movement in the Church



"The Relief Corps of Heaven": Women and Missions



"Righteous Guidance": Religion and Politics



Across the Divide: The Interracial and Interdenominational Movement



"Womanpower",-Religion, Race, Gender Consolidation of a Movement



"Jesus, Jobs, and Justice": The Black Woman's Agenda


Coda


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Notes


Index