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Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith

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To be a black woman of faith Within the American South is to consider and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understanding expresses itself in on a regular basis 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 true complexities of African American women’s spiritual lives.

Gracefully combining narrative, interviews, and analysis, this book explores the personal, political, and non secular 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 important importance to the ways by which these women interpret, inform, and reshape their social conditions–conditions frequently characterized by limited get entry to to job opportunities, health care, and equitable schooling. Within 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 very own more intimate renegotiations of self.


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