| Description |
xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit her? The thousands of Black Churchwomen who took part in civil rights protests drew on faith, courage, and moral imagination to acquire the lived experiences at the heart of the answers to that question. AnneMarie Mingo brings these forgotten witnesses into the historical narrative to explore the moral and ethical world of a generation of Black Churchwomen and the extraordinary liberation theology they created. These women acted out of belief that what they did was bigger than themselves. Taking as their goal nothing less than the moral transformation of American society, they joined the movement because it was something they had to do. Their personal accounts of a lived religion enacted in the world provide powerful insights into how faith steels human beings to face threats, jail, violence, and seemingly implacable hatred. Throughout, Mingo draws on their experiences to construct an ethical model meant to guide contemporary activists in the ongoing pursuit of justice. A depiction of moral imagination that resonates today, Have You Got Good Religion? reveals how Black Churchwomen's understanding of God became action and transformed a nation"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Women, Black -- Religious life.
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African American women -- Religious aspects.
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Civil rights movement.
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African American leadership -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Mingo, AnneMarie. Have you got good religion? Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024] 9780252055348 (DLC) 2023028620 |
| ISBN |
9780252045653 hardcover |
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0252045653 hardcover |
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9780252087769 paperback |
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0252087763 paperback |
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9780252055348 electronic book |
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