Joy R. Bostic

African American Female Mysticism

Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism

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Produktbeschreibung

African-American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth Century Religious Activism is an important book-length treatment of African-American female mysticism. The primary subjects of this book are three icons of black female spirituality and religious activism - Jarena Lee, Sojourner Truth, and Rebecca Cox Jackson.

Produktdetails

• Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-37372-4
• 2013 edition
• Seitenzahl: 179
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781137373724
• ISBN-10: 1137373725
• Artikelnr.: 39599450

Autorenporträt

Joy R. Bostic is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Nineteenth-Century Contextual Landscape of African American Female Mysticism 2. On Defining Mysticism and the Sacred Social Worlds of African American Women 3. Standing Upon the Precipice: Community, Evil, and Black Female Subjectivity 4. God I Didn't Know You Were So Big: Apophatic Mysticism and Expanding World Views 5. Look at What You Have Done: Spiritual Power and Re-imagining the Divine 6. Wholly Weaving the Spider's Web: African American Women's Mystical Activism

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