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To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understanding expresses itself in everyday practices of faith is the subject of Between Sundays, an innovative work that takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow assumptions about black religion and into the actual complexities of African American women's spiritual lives. Gracefully combining narrative, interviews, and analysis, this book explores the personal, political, and spiritual commitments of a group of Baptist women whose experiences have been informed by the realities of life in a rural, southern community. In these lives, "spirituality" emerges as a space for creative agency, of vital importance to the ways in which these women interpret, inform, and reshape their social conditions--conditions often characterized by limited access to job opportunities, health care, and equitable schooling. In the words of these women, and in Marla F. Frederick's deft analysis, we see how spirituality-expressed as gratitude, empathy, or righteous discontent-operates as a transformative power in women's interactions with others, and in their own more intimate renegotiations of self.

African American women --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Religious life. --- Spiritual life. --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- Religious life --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Amerika --- african americans. --- american south. --- american women. --- baptist women. --- black americans. --- black experience. --- black religion. --- black women. --- christianity. --- cultural analysis. --- cultural politics. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- faith and religion. --- female relationships. --- gender studies. --- nonfiction. --- personal interviews. --- regional history. --- rural south. --- social conditions. --- southern baptists. --- spiritual community. --- spiritual lives. --- spirituality. --- systemic oppression. --- women of faith.

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How Black Christians, Muslims, and Jews have used media to prove their equality, not only in the eyes of God but in society. The institutional structures of white supremacy--slavery, Jim Crow laws, convict leasing, and mass incarceration--require a commonsense belief that black people lack the moral and intellectual capacities of white people. It is through this lens of belief that racial exclusions have been justified and reproduced in the United States. Televised Redemption argues that African American religious media has long played a key role in humanizing the race by unabashedly claiming that blacks are endowed by God with the same gifts of goodness and reason as whites--if not more, thereby legitimizing black Americans' rights to citizenship. If racism is a form of perception, then religious media has not only altered how others perceive blacks, but has also altered how blacks perceive themselves. Televised Redemption argues that black religious media has provided black Americans with new conceptual and practical tools for how to be in the world, and changed how black people are made intelligible and recognizable as moral citizens. In order to make these claims to black racial equality, this media has encouraged dispositional changes in adherents that were at times empowering and at other times repressive. From Christian televangelism to Muslim periodicals to Hebrew Israelite radio, Televised Redemption explores the complicated but critical redemptive history of African American religious media.

Television in religion --- Television broadcasting --- Religion on television. --- African Americans --- Religious aspects. --- Religion. --- United States.

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This book, edited by Edward Brooks and Michael Lamb, explores leadership through perspectives from the humanities and liberal arts. It examines how classical literature, philosophy, history, and the arts contribute to understanding leadership. The book aims to broaden the concept of leadership beyond conventional spheres like business and politics, emphasizing stories of both fictional and real leaders from diverse contexts. By highlighting leaders from various disciplines, the essays provide insights into the complexities of leadership, including its challenges, flaws, and the transformative power of ordinary acts. The work addresses both exemplary and cautionary tales, aiming to humanize leadership and inspire readers to consider the impact of culture, history, and personal narratives on leadership roles. It is intended for an audience interested in leadership studies, humanities, and liberal arts.

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