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Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement

Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement

Mingo, Annemarie

Hardcover

20th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0252045653
ISBN13: 9780252045653
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Mar 26 2024
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit her? The thousands of Black Churchwomen who took part in civil rights protests drew on faith, courage, and moral imagination to acquire the lived experiences at the heart of the answers to that question. AnneMarie Mingo brings these forgotten witnesses into the historical narrative to explore the moral and ethical world of a generation of Black Churchwomen and the extraordinary liberation theology they created. These women acted out of belief that what they did was bigger than themselves. Taking as their goal nothing less than the moral transformation of American society, they joined the movement because it was something they had to do. Their personal accounts of a lived religion enacted in the world provide powerful insights into how faith steels human beings to face threats, jail, violence, and seemingly implacable hatred. Throughout, Mingo draws on their experiences to construct an ethical model meant to guide contemporary activists in the ongoing pursuit of justice.

A depiction of moral imagination that resonates today, Have You Got Good Religion? reveals how Black Churchwomen's understanding of God became action and transformed a nation.

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