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Between Sundays : Black women and everyday struggles of faith / Marla F. Frederick.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studiesPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780520936454
  • 0520936450
  • 1417520272
  • 9781417520275
  • 9781597344906
  • 1597344907
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Between Sundays.DDC classification:
  • 277.5/6/083/082 22
LOC classification:
  • BR563.B53 F73 2003eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • BK 2000
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Contents:
Introduction -- Strange meetings -- "Of the meaning of progress" -- Gratitude and empathy -- Reading church history -- Righteous discontent -- "Are we a church or a social change organization? -- Televangelism (and shifting discourses of progress) -- "Loosed women" -- Financial priorities -- Sexual politics -- Conclusion.
Summary: Takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow assumptions about black religion into the actual complexities of African American women's spiritual lives.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index.

Introduction -- Strange meetings -- "Of the meaning of progress" -- Gratitude and empathy -- Reading church history -- Righteous discontent -- "Are we a church or a social change organization? -- Televangelism (and shifting discourses of progress) -- "Loosed women" -- Financial priorities -- Sexual politics -- Conclusion.

Print version record.

Takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow assumptions about black religion into the actual complexities of African American women's spiritual lives.