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Title: Between Sundays
Condition: New
Subtitle: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith
Author: Marla Frederick
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520233948
EAN: 9780520233942
ISBN: 9780520233942
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Gender Sex & Relationships
Release Date: 20/11/2003
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 363g
Release Year: 2003

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