Witnessing and Testifying : Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights /
The Civil Rights Movement was not only an epochal social and political event but also a profound moral turning point in American history. Here, for the first time, social ethicist Ross examines the religiously motivated activism of black women in the movement and its moral import.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Working for survival and liberation: racial uplift and social responsibility
- Womanist theology and "keeping on down the freedom road"
- Witnessing and testifying
- Sojourner Truth: a black religious woman's antebellum activism
- Nannie Helen Burroughs: a turn-of-the-century activist
- Ella Baker: passing on values of attending to the "least"
- Septima Poinsette Clark: education for citizenship
- Empowering local people as a moral value
- Fannie Lou Hamer: realizing promises of religious faith and hope
- Victoria Way DeLee: community activism as religious practice
- Self-realization as moral practice from a grassroots perspective
- Clara Muhammad and the Nation of Islam
- Religious and moral influences in Muhammad's early life
- Muhammad's role in the development of the nation of Islam
- Muhammad's religious and moral perspectives
- Diane Nash: passionate agitation for positive quality of life
- Ruby Doris Smith Robinson: building community and sustaining community protest
- Nash and Robinson: young visionary activists
- Testifying and witnessing
- Values and virtues: models and practices in black religious women's activism
- Black religious women and public life.


