| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 285 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword / Cardinal Wilton Gregory -- Introduction / David J. Endres -- Speaking the truth : the Black Catholic intellectual vocation / Bryan N. Massingale -- Black history and culture / Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A. -- Black Catholics in the United States : a historical chronology, 1452-2020 / Ronald LaMarr Sharps -- Outsiders within : the Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1830s church and society / Dianne Betts Morrow -- We've come this far by faith : Black Catholics and their Church / Diane L. Hayes -- Called to be leaven : reflections on African American Catholic spirituality / Cyprian Davis, O.S.B. -- "Gonna move when the Spirit say move" : a Black spirituality of resistance and resilience / C. Vanessa White -- Thank God we ain't what we was : the state of the liturgy in the Black Catholic community / Clarence Joseph Rivers -- The African American Catholic Hymnal and the African American spiritual / M. Shawn Copeland -- Sister Thea Bowman : liturgical justice through Black sacred song / Kim R. Harris -- Writing Black Catholic lives : Black Catholic biographies and autobiographies / Cecilia A. Moore -- Freeing the Spirit : very personal reflections on one man's search for the Spirit in worship / Clarence Joseph Rivers -- Black Catholic scholarship, 1854-2020 / Ronald LaMarr Sharps |
| Summary |
"This first-ever Black Catholic Studies Reader offers an introduction to the theology and history of the Black Catholic experience from those who know it best: Black Catholic scholars, teachers, activists, and ministers. The reader offers a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary approach that illuminates what it means to be Black and Catholic in the United States.This collection of essays from prominent scholars, both past and present, brings together contributions from theologians M. Shawn Copeland, Kim Harris, Diana Hayes, Bryan Massingale, and C. Vanessa White, and historians Cecilia Moore, Diane Batts Morrow, and Ronald Sharps, and selections from an earlier generation of thinkers and activists, including Thea Bowman, Cyprian Davis, and Clarence Rivers. Contributions delve into the interlocking fields of history, spirituality, liturgy, and biography. Through their contributions, Black Catholic Studies scholars engage theologies of liberation and the reality of racism, the Black struggle for recognition within the Church, and the distinctiveness of African-inspired spirituality, prayer, and worship.By considering their racial and religious identities, these select Black Catholic theologians and historians add their voices to the contemporary conversation surrounding culture, race, and religion in America, inviting engagement from students and teachers of the American experience, social commentators and advocates, and theologians and persons of faith."--ProQuest website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-264) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed October 13, 2021) |
| Subject |
African American Catholics.
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African American Catholics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Endres, David J. (David Jeffrey), 1979- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780813234304 |
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0813234301 |
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