If It Wasn't for the Women...
Subtitle: Black Women's Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781570753435
Subjects: Christian social thought & activity; Women's studies; Womanist theology; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Christianity - History - General; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology of Religion; Sociology; Religious life; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Women's Studies - General; African American women political activists; African American women; African American women politic
First sentence: Many sociologists who studied the relationships between dominant and subordinate racial-ethnic groups in the 1960s stress the creative ways in which individuals and groups enable communities to articulate their own needs and challenge oppressive structures in the wider society.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.