TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiggins,Daphne C.
TI  - Righteous Content: Black Women's Perspectives of Church and Faith 
T2  - Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
SN  - 9780814793916
AV  - BR563.N4 W493 2005
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - African American women
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious life
KW  - RELIGION / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Paints
KW  - black
KW  - like
KW  - lived
KW  - lives
KW  - portrait
KW  - religion
KW  - today
KW  - vivid
KW  - what
KW  - womens
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Enter most African American congregations and you are likely to see the century-old pattern of a predominantly female audience led by a male pastor. How do we explain the dedication of African American women to the church, particularly when the church's regard for women has been questioned?Following in the footsteps of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's pathbreaking work, Righteous Discontent, Daphne Wiggins takes a contemporary look at the religiosity of black women. Her ethnographic work explores what is behind black women's intense loyalty to the church, bringing to the fore the voices of the female membership of black churches as few have done. Wiggins illuminates the spiritual sustenance the church provides black women, uncovers their critical assessment of the church's ministry, and interprets the consequences of their limited collective activism.Wiggins paints a vivid portrait of what lived religion is like in black women's lives today
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