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After a chapter exploring black women's religious context and presenting early examples of this work by women of the ante-bellum and post-Reconstruction eras, Ross looks at seven civil rights activists who continue this tradition. They are Ella Josephine Baker, Septima Poinsette Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Victoria Way DeLee, Clara Muhammad, Diane Nash, and Ruby Doris Smith Robinson.

In a fascinating narrative style that draws on biography, socia    l history, and original archival research, Ross shows how their moral formation and work reflect both womanist consciousness and practices of witness and testimony, both emergent from the black religious context.

Ross' major work is engrossing history and moving ethical challenge. Examining black women's civil rights activism as religiously impelled moral practices brings a new insight to work on the movement and lifts up a paradigm for engagement in the mountainous challenges of contemporary social life.

Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets
by Renita J. Weems
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Retail Price: $17.00
Format: paperback, 150 pages
ISBN: 0800629485
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date: Thursday November 30, 1995

Weems's pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love, compassion, and conventional commitment often became associated with battery, infidelity, and the rape and mutilation of women. She wrestles with the prophets' rhetoric and sexual metaphors to uncover Israelite social structures, asking, "What is implied about women, men, and God by the language that the prophets use to describe the covenant between Yahweh and Israel?" This provocative work by a leading African American biblical scholar delves deeply into issues of intimacy and power, violence and control, seduction and betrayal, and is a searing indictment of the axial points of Israelite religion—its covenantal and prophetic traditions—and their authority today.

Refiner's Fire: A Religious Engagement with Violence
by Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
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Retail Price: $20.00
Format: paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 0800632532
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date: Friday November 17, 2000


What does religion have to do with fomenting or transcending violence? In this fascinating work, Kirk-Duggan documents and analyzes religion's involvement in violence, for good and ill, in the Bible, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the youth scene of today.

Spiritual Maturity: Preserving Congregational Health and Balance
by Frank A. Thomas
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Retail Price: $10.00
Format: paperback, 112 pages
ISBN: 0800630866
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date: Monday April 22, 2002


Like all human bodies, the body of Christ that we call "church" needs to attend to its health or it may become ill. Renowned pastor, preacher, and teacher Frank Thomas believes that many congregations exhibit a number of dysfunctional habits in conducting business that lead to rifts, divides, and even congregational splits. Often they are caused by leadership styles that are ineffective and controlling. Thomas examines how poor congregational leadership is often the result of personality conflicts among leaders and how many key leaders—both clergy and lay— participate in keeping unhealthy methods alive.

Thomas’s book will help lay and clergy leaders improve the health of their congregation by taking a close look at the styles of church leadership, methods of information flow, and levels of participation that exist within the body. Thomas offers a holistic solution based on a model of spiritual maturity for creating and preserving a healthy congregation.

Strength to Love
by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Retail Price: $17.00
Format: paperback, 158 pages
ISBN: 0800614410
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date: Wednesday April 1, 1981


The classic collection of sermons preached by Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Measure of a Man
by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Retail Price: $6.00
Format: paperback, 55 pages
ISBN: 0800634497
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date: Friday October 19, 2001


Why nonviolence matters

Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader contains the theological roots of his political and social philosophy of nonviolent activism.

What Can Happen When We Pray: Daily Devotional
by Rev. Dr. Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A Wright Jr. (Author of the Foreword)
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Retail Price: $14.95
Format: paperback, 384 pages
ISBN: 0806634065
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
Release Date: Wednesday November 7, 2001

What Can Happen When We Pray, a year-round daily devotional, proclaims that standing on the promises of God is the best place to be. This book is organized with daily prayers and reflections, as well as song suggestions and journal space to reinforce each day's lessons. Come stand on the promises of God and watch What Can Happen When We Pray.

 

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