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.

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

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Book Title: African American Female Mysticism
Book Subtitle: Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism
Authors: Joy R. Bostic
Series Title: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137375056
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-37372-4Published: 21 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47676-3Published: 21 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37505-6Published: 18 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2945-6975
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6983
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 179
Topics: Social History, History of the Americas, History of Philosophy, Modern History, History of Religion, African History

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

African American Female Mysticism: The Nineteenth-Century Contextual Landscape

Defining Mysticism and the Sacred-Social Worlds of African American Women

Standing upon the Precipice: Community, Evil, and Black Female Subjectivity

God I Didn’t Know You Were So Big: Apophatic Mysticism and Expanding Worldviews

Look at What You Have Done: Sacred Power and Reimagining the Divine

Weaving the Spider’s Web: African American Female Mystical Activism

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