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This far by faith : readings in African-American women's religious biography

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Contributors: Weisenfeld, Judith., Newman, Richard, 1930-2003.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 1996.
Subjects and Genres:
African Americans > Religion.
African American women > Biography.
Religious biography > United States.
Women and religion > United States > Biography.
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Table of 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.

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