Witnessing and Testifying

ISBN 10: 0800636031 / ISBN 13: 9780800636036

Published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing, 2003

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Synopsis:

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, social 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.

About the Author:

Rosetta E. Ross earned her doctorate at Emory University and is the philosophy and religious studies professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Witnessing and Testifying
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: PAP
Condition: New