Joy R. Bostic
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2013
9781349476763
African American Female Mysticism
Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
2013
ISBN13: 9781349476763
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
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Samenvatting
African-American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth Century Religious Activism is an important book-length treatment of African-American female mysticism. The primary subjects of this book are three icons of black female spirituality and religious activism - Jarena Lee, Sojourner Truth, and Rebecca Cox Jackson.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349476763
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction 1. The Nineteenth-Century Contextual Landscape of African American Female Mysticism 2. On Defining Mysticism and the Sacred Social Worlds of African American Women 3. Standing Upon the Precipice: Community, Evil, and Black Female Subjectivity 4. God I Didn't Know You Were So Big: Apophatic Mysticism and Expanding World Views 5. Look at What You Have Done: Spiritual Power and Re-imagining the Divine 6. Wholly Weaving the Spider's Web: African American Women's Mystical Activism