In a Blaze of Glory

by Townes, Emilie M.

• ISBN13: 9780687187577
• ISBN10: 0687187575
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: ABINGDON PRESS
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Summary

This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the interplay between the contemporary Black Church in the United States and African American womanist spirituality and social witness. Historically, the Black Church itself has represented a strong yoking of social witness and spirituality. This blend has endured whether the primary theology and ethical import of the Church has been accomodationist or protest-oriented. African American women in the Church have carried this legacy in their lived witness of spirituality and social action. This volume will explore some of the historic roots of this journey, the literary testimony of this heritage, and offers a constructive ethic for a contemporary social witness which is steeped in spiritual formation and growth.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments	p. 9
The Spirit That Moves Us: African Cosmography in African American Synthesis	p. 19
Finding the Legacy: Nineteenth-Century African American Women's Spirituality and Social Reform	p. 30
To Be Called Beloved: Historical and Contemporary Lynching in African America	p. 47
Writing the Right: Gender and Sexuality in African American Community	p. 68
Another Kind of Poetry: Identity and Colorism in Black Life	p. 89
Living into an Apocalyptic Vision: Bringing Ourselves Home	p. 120
Notes	p. 145
Selected Bibliography	p. 158
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