A01=Marla Frederick
african americans
american south
american women
Author_Marla Frederick
baptist women
black americans
black experience
black religion
black women
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christianity
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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
Product details
- ISBN 9780520233942
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Nov 2003
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Marla F. Frederick is Assistant Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Harvard University.
