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About This Book:

Title: This Far by Faith: Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography

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Paperback, 1996

Synopsis
A collection of essays on the religious identities and experiences of African American women since slavery. Profiles such figures as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Willie Mae Ford Smith, and Ella Baker, exploring the role that religion played in their lives.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Weight:        1 Pounds
Height:         9 Inches
Width:          6 Inches
Thickness:    0.8 Inches



Publisher Notes

This Far By Faith brings together a collection of essays on the religious identities and experiences of African-American women. Spanning from the period of slavery to the present, the essays profile American figures such as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Willie Mae Ford Smith, exploring the role that religious institutions and impulses played in their lives.

Methodologically grounded in a historical perspective, the contributors make use of varied sources--music, visual arts, approaches to health care, and political activism--to recover our understanding of African-American women's contributions to religious, social and political life in America.

Complete with an extensive bibliography for further reading and research, this collection is a critical examination and critique of the exclusion of African-American women in considerations of American religious history, activism, and thought.