The Subversive Pulpit (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 2026

027110211X / 9780271102115

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Paperback. When the United Holy Church of America moved to curtail womens ordination in 1924, Ida Bell Robinson broke away to found a church where women would not only preach but lead. The Subversive Pulpit argues that Robinson used her agency and autonomy amid the upheavals of the Great Migration to build a religious enterprise defined by radical gender egalitarianism and socioeconomic uplift for Black women and their communities.Centering her as founder and first bishop of the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, Dara Coleby Delgado shows how Robinson's religious program extended far beyond the question of whether women should preach. Drawing on unpublished denominational records, census data, the Black Press, and other archival sources, Delgado interprets Robinsons efforts to loose the women as a practical, economically consequential project. Robinson transformed the pulpit into a subversive siteone that generated social capital, fostered positive religio-racial identity, and created jobs and institutional opportunities aligned with Progressive Era urban culture, industrialism, and commercial expansion.By recovering Robinson as both a religious influencer and business-minded institution builder, Delgado reframes her legacy as a model of holiness, spiritual empowerment, and prophetic social consciousness. The book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on American Pentecostalism, African American religion, and womens religious leadership, and will be essential reading for scholars and students of American religious history, Black church studies, gender studies, and womens history. An incisive look into how Bishop Ida Bell Robinson transformed the pulpit into a platform for Black womens religious authority, economic empowerment, and community uplift during the Great Migration. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
The Subversive Pulpit (Paperback)
Author
Dara Coleby Delgado
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park
Publication year
2026
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
027110211X
ISBN 13
9780271102115

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