Between Sundays [[electronic resource] ] : Black women and everyday struggles of faith / / Marla F. Frederick

• Autore: Frederick Marla Faye <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Disciplina: 277.5/6/083/082
• Soggetto topico: African American women - Religious life; African American women - Spiritual life
• Soggetto non controllato: african americans; american south; american women; baptist women; black americans; black experience; black religion; black women; christianity; cultural analysis; cultural politics; ethnographers; ethnography; faith and religion; female relationships; gender studies; nonfiction; personal interviews; regional history; rural south; social conditions; southern baptists; spiritual community; spiritual lives; spirituality; systemic oppression; women of faith
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Monday. "Of The Meaning Of Progress" -- Tuesday. Gratitude And Empathy -- Revival. Reading Church History -- Wednesday. Righteous Discontent -- Revival. "Are We A Church Or A Social Change Organization?" -- Thursday Televangelism. (And Shifting Discourses Of Progress) -- Revival. "Loosed Women" -- Friday. Financial Priorities -- Saturday. Sexual Politics -- Second Sunday. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understanding expresses itself in everyday practices of faith is the subject of Between Sundays, an innovative work that takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow assumptions about black religion and into the actual complexities of African American women's spiritual lives. Gracefully combining narrative, interviews, and analysis, this book explores the personal, political, and spiritual commitments of a group of Baptist women whose experiences have been informed by the realities of life in a rural, southern community. In these lives, "spirituality" emerges as a space for creative agency, of vital importance to the ways in which these women interpret, inform, and reshape their social conditions--conditions often characterized by limited access to job opportunities, health care, and equitable schooling. In the words of these women, and in Marla F. Frederick's deft analysis, we see how spirituality-expressed as gratitude, empathy, or righteous discontent-operates as a transformative power in women's interactions with others, and in their own more intimate renegotiations of self.
• Titolo autorizzato: Between Sundays
• ISBN: 1-59734-490-7; 0-520-93645-0; 9786612762673; 1-282-76267-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777399503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies