Prophesying daughters [electronic resource] : Black women preachers and the Word, 1823-1913 / Chanta M. Haywood.
By: Haywood, Chanta M.
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BookPublisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003Description: xiii, 144 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): African American women clergy -- History -- 19th century | African American women clergy -- History -- 20th century | Prophecy -- Christianity -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 251/.0082/0973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-137) and index.
The prophesying daughters : biographical and historical background -- The act of prophesying : nineteenth-century Black women preachers and Black literary history -- Prophetic change : Jarena Lee's and Julia Foote's uses of conversion rhetoric in the context of reader distrust -- Prophetic journeying : the trope of travel in Black women preachers' narratives -- Prophetic reading : Black women preachers and biblical interpretation -- Prophetic works : prophesying daughters and social activism--the case of Frances Joseph Gaudet -- Can I get a witness? : the implications of prophesying for African American literary studies.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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