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Author Arthur Riley, Cole, author.

Title Black liturgies : prayers, poems, and meditations for staying human / Cole Arthur Riley.

Publication Info. New York : Convergent, [2024]
©2024

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  248.8089 ART    DUE 04-05-24
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult New Materials  248.8 AR    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxiv, 306 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "A stunning, all-new collection of prayers, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies. In the summer of 2020, Cole Arthur Riley was desperate for a spirituality she could trust. Amidst ongoing national racial violence, the isolation of the pandemic, and a surge of anti-Black rhetoric in many Christian spaces, she began dreaming of a harbor for a more human, more liberating expression of faith. She went on to create Black Liturgies, a digital project that connects spiritual practice with Black emotion, memory, and the Black body. In this book, she deepens the work of that project, bringing together new prayers, letters, poetry, meditation questions, breath practice, and the writings of Black literary ancestors to offer 43 liturgies that can be practiced individually or as a community. With a poet's touch and a sensitivity that has made her one of the most important spiritual voices at work today, Riley invites readers to reflect on their own experiences of wonder, rest, rage, and repair, while also including liturgies for holidays like Lent, Advent, Juneteenth, and Mother's Day. For those healing from spiritual spaces that were more violent than loving; for those who have escaped the trauma of white Christian nationalism, religious homophobia, and transphobia; for anyone asking what it means to be human in a world of both beauty and terror; Black Liturgies is a work of healing and liberation, and a vision for what might be"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject African Americans -- Religious life.
African Americans -- Prayers and devotions.
African Americans (OCoLC)fst00799558
Genre/Form prayer books. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026476
Prayers and devotions (OCoLC)fst01423909
Prayers.
Other Form: Online version: Arthur Riley, Cole. Black Liturgies New York : Convergent, [2024] 9780593593653 (DLC) 2023034029
ISBN 9780593593646 (hardcover)
0593593642
9780593593653 (ebook)
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