African American Female Mysticism
Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism
Authors: Bostic, Joy
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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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- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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African American Female Mysticism: The Nineteenth-Century Contextual Landscape
Pages 1-26
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Defining Mysticism and the Sacred-Social Worlds of African American Women
Pages 27-48
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Standing upon the Precipice: Community, Evil, and Black Female Subjectivity
Pages 49-70
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God I Didn’t Know You Were So Big: Apophatic Mysticism and Expanding Worldviews
Pages 71-93
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Look at What You Have Done: Sacred Power and Reimagining the Divine
Pages 95-117
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- African American Female Mysticism
- Book Subtitle
- Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism
- Authors
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- Joy Bostic
- Series Title
- Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-37505-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137375056
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-37372-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-47676-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 179
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