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  1. Liberation Theology/
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Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion and Civil Rights

Black Women, Religion and Civil Rights

  • Paperback
  • 296 pages
  • Publisher: Fontana Press Alban Books
  • 15.2 x 22.8 x 2.3 cm

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After a chapter exploring black women's religious context and presenting early examples of this work by women of the ante-bellum and post-Reconstruction eras, Ross looks at seven civil rights activists who continue this tradition. They are Ella Josephine Baker, Septima Poinsette Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Victoria Way DeLee, Clara Muhammad, Diane Nash, and Ruby Doris Smith Robinson.

In a fascinating narrative style that draws on biography, social history, and original archival research, Ross shows how their moral formation and work reflect both womanist consciousness and practices of witness and testimony, both emergent from the black religious context.

Ross' major work is engrossing history and moving ethical challenge. Examining black women's civil rights activism as religiously impelled moral practices brings a new insight to work on the movement and lifts up a paradigm for engagement in the mountainous challenges of contemporary social life.

  • Author

    Rosetta E. Ross

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Fontana Press Alban Books

  • Published

    January 2003

  • Weight

    500g

  • Page Count

    296

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.8 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780800636036

  • ISBN-10

    0800636031

  • Eden Code

    12469

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