| Description |
326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: We have been Believers: Patterns of African-American Women's Religiosity / Judith Weisenfeld -- 1. The Harriet Powers Pictorial Quilts / Marie Jeanne Adams -- 2. Willie Mae Ford Smith of St. Louis: A Shaping Influence Upon Black Gospel Singing Style / William Thomas Dargan and Kathy White Bullock -- 3. Lucie E. Campbell Williams: A Cultural Biography / Charles Walker -- 4. Praying in the Shadows: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, A Look at Nineteenth-Century Black Catholic Spirituality / Thaddeus J. Posey -- 5. The Controversy Over Women's Ministry in the African Methodist Episcopal Church During the 1880s: The Case of Sarah Ann Hughes / Stephen Ward Angell -- 6. "Warrior Mother of Africa's Warriors of the Most High God": Laura Adorkor Kofey and the African Universal Church / Richard Newman -- 7. Mary Mcleod Bethune and the Methodist Episcopal Church North: In But Out / Clarence G. Newsome -- 8. Religion, Politics, and Gender: The Leadership of Nannie Helen Burroughs / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- 9. A Black Woman in a White Man's Church: Amy E. Robbins and the Reorganization / Roger D. Launius -- 10. Minister and Feminist Reformer: The Life of Florence Spearing Randolph / Bettye Collier-Thomas -- 11. Elizabeth Mars Johnson Thomson (1807-1864): A Research Note / Randall K. Burkett -- 12. "Who is Sufficient for these Things?" Sara G. Stanley and the American Missionary Association, 1864-1868 / Judith Weisenfeld -- 13. Spelman's Emma B. Delaney and the African Mission / Sandy D. Martin -- 14. In Search of Harriet Tubman's Spiritual Autobiography / Jean M. Humez -- 15. Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth's Knowing and Becoming Known / Nell Irvin Painter -- 16. Septima P. Clark and the Struggle for Human Rights / Grace Jordan McFadden. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-318) and index. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Religion.
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African American women -- Biography.
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Religious biography -- United States.
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Women and religion -- United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Weisenfeld, Judith.
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Newman, Richard, 1930-2003.
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| ISBN |
041591311X (acid-free paper) |
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0415913128 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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