If It Wasn't for the Women...: Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community - Paperback
If It Wasn't for the Women...: Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community - Paperback
Description
by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes (Author)
These collected essays examine the roles of women in their churches and communities, the implication of those roles for African American culture, and the tensions and stereotypes that shape societal responses to these roles. Gilkes examines the ways black women and their experience shape the culture and consciousness of the black religious experience, and reflects on some of the crises and conflicts that attend this experience.
Author Biography
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Colby College and assistant pastor of Union Baptist Church in Cambridge, Mass.
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