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Books on: african woman religions

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Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam

Book by Carolyn Moxley Rouse; University of California Press, 2004

Subjects:

African American Women--Religion, Muslim Women--Social Conditions, Muslim Women--United States--Social Conditions, Women In Islam

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...meaning? Harding argues that African American religions and political activism have been...defines three consistent themes in African American resistance movements...Improvement Association UNIA and African Communities League in 1914 in...
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Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights

Book by Rosetta E. Ross; Fortress Press, 2003

Subjects:

African American Women Civil Rights Workers--Religious Life--History--20th Century, African Americans--Religion, Civil Rights--Religious Aspects--Christianity--History--20th Century, Civil Rights--Religious Aspects--Islam--History--20th Century, Civil Rights--United States--History--20th Century, Womanist Theology--History--20th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...1962, with help from community members, the Hamers moved into a three-room house that they rented from an African American woman for eighteen dollars per month. The next day, Hamer went back to retake the registration tests. In an interview...
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Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith, and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya

Book by Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton; Oxford University Press, 1996

Subjects:

Christian Sects--Kenya--Nyanza--Case Studies, Independent Churches--Kenya--Nyanza Province--Case Studies, Luo (African People)--Religion, Musanda Holy Ghost Church Of East Africa, Nyanza Province (Kenya)--Church History, Ruwe Holy Ghost Church Of East Africa, Women In Christianity--Kenya--Nyanza Province--Case Studies

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...and hierarchy in African religions is more a concern...section of Roho women, indeed, supports this view. Women indicated that...involvement in Roho religion, women repeatedly stressed...Not once did a woman member express...
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Teaching African American Religions

Book by Carolyn M. Jones, Theodore Louis Trost; Oxford University Press, 2005

Subjects:

African Americans--Religion--Study And Teaching

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...a core group of the African American students had...an African American woman of my age who was a...Teaching African American religions as a Euro-American...regularly teach world religions. Nobody has ever questioned...graduate course in Asian religions. Yet there seems to...white woman teach black religion? This issue has emerged...
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Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition

Book by Yvonne P. Chireau; University of California Press, 2003

Subjects:

African Americans--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Georgia, related the tale of a woman who became convinced that her...her financial success. This woman, she claimed, became stricken...St. Helena reported that an African American woman found herself...In one such account by an African American writer in the South...

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Journal Articles on: african woman religions

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"Marsa Never Sot Aunt Rebecca Down": Enslaved Women, Religion, and Social Power in the Antebellum South

Journal article by Brenda E. Stevenson; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 90, 2005

Subjects:

African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...elderly enslaved woman who, not only...Rebecca was a woman, and she was...Didnt let women do much prayin...of "their religion" to be an...traditional African religions allowed social...of enslaved Africans and African Americans who...practiced other religions derived from...Raboteau, Slave Religion, 80-83...prominence of women and the elderly...
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"My Mother's God Is Mine": Finally the Most Powerful Recognition of the Importance of Women to African American Religion

Journal article by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 96, 2011

Subjects:

African American religious groups, African Americans, African Americans--Religious aspects, Collier-Thomas, Bettye--Religious aspects, Martin, Roberta--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...the first black woman in any denomination...the roles of women, that far exceeds...Black Church and African American religion to understand...beneficial to the African American community...interpretation of African American religion through the voices...African American women. Once one wades deeply into this woman-centered cornucopia...
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The Attitudinal Structure of African American Women Party Activists: the Impact of Race, Gender, and Religion

Journal article by Rosalee A. Clawson, John A. Clark; Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2003

Subjects:

Activists, African Americans, Grass roots movement, Womens rights movement

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Structure of African American Women Party Activists...Gender, and Religion by Rosalee...than black women (Harris 1999...increases African American support...heavily on religion are less supportive...sample of African American women from Washington...
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African American Women and the Niagara Movement, 1905-1909

Journal article by Anita Nahal, Lopez D. Matthews Jr.; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 32, 2008

Subjects:

African Americans, Meetings, Religion, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

African American Women and the Niagara...present their story. Black women were the gender capital of...to create the story of the women in the Niagara Movement: Mary...National Association of Colored Women in 1916, and led the National...Committee and became the first woman to speak before the Norwegian...
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Strength in the Spirit: a Qualitative Examination of African American College Women and the Role of Spirituality during College

Journal article by Lori D. Patton, Michelle L. McClure; The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 78, 2009

Subjects:

African Americans, College students, Religion, Spirituality, Studies, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...spirituality and religion. Mattis...American women use religion...experiences of some African Americans...participants. Women in this study...as a Black woman was tolerated...I am an African American...of faith, religion, and spirituality...Also, the women in this study...between faith, religion, and spirituality...indicative of African American...

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Magazine Articles on: african woman religions

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You Got a Right to the Tree of Life: African American Spirituals and Religions of the Diaspora

Magazine article by Rachel Elizabeth Harding; Cross Currents, Vol. 57, Summer 2007

Subjects:

African diaspora--Religious aspects, Religion--Social aspects, Religious beliefs--Social aspects, Spirituals (Songs)--Evaluation

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the enslaved Black woman whose burdens are...ancestral traditions among African Americans and they...others--in different religions all reflect a powerful...their ancestors. The Africans who came across the...North America, whose religion drew heavily on rituals...understandings from African ancestral traditions...connection to Black religions all over the Western...place where African women, men and children...
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African-american Muslim Women Discuss Their Journeys of Faith

Magazine article by Delinda C. Hanley; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 30, May/Jun 2011

Subjects:

African Americans, Colleges & universities, Muslim Americans, Muslims, Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

African-american Muslim Women...Delinda C. Hanley Four African-American Muslim women...many of the enslaved Africans came to America as Muslims. Other African Americans came to Islam...responsibility to share our religion and say who were not. Were not the oppressed women portrayed by media...American, a Muslim and a woman," her host commiserated...
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African-American Women on the Western Frontier

Magazine article by Roger D. Hardaway; Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 60, January 1997

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African American Mormons--History, African American women--History, Brown, Clara--Biography, California--History, Fields, Mary--Biography, Greeley, Julia--Biography, James, Jane Elizabeth Manning--Biography, Mason, Biddy--Biography, Nevins, Tish--Biography, Pleasant, Mary Ellen--Biography, Western States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

African-American women on...Roger D. Hardaway African Americans have been...Americans have been. Africans came to the New World...nineteenth century, an African American named York...of the first black women who went west was Jane...leaders to end the religions discriminatory treatment...African-American woman to travel with Mormons...
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A Skeptical Look at African Witchcraft and Religion

Magazine article by Leo Igwe; Skeptic, Vol. 11, 2004

Subjects:

Africa, Behavior, Social criticism & satire, Social life & customs, Witchcraft

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Witchcraft and Religion by Leo Igwe WITCHCRAFT...PRACTICE on the African continent. It...lives of nearly all Africans, both educated...Several writings on African indigenous religious...pseudoscience. African Witchcraft Africans make a distinction...associated with women and children...in which an old woman was seen in the...
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Religion: Source of Terror and Transformation; Reflections on Seeing the Face of God in My Religious Other

Magazine article by Eileen R. Kinch; Cross Currents, Vol. 56, Winter 2007

Subjects:

Chatham College--Religious aspects, Chatham College--Social aspects, Muslim students--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Muslim students--Social aspects, Religion and literature--Criticism and interpretation, Religion--Analysis, Religious beliefs--Analysis, Religious literature--Criticism and interpretation, Students, Muslim--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Students, Muslim--Social aspects, Women and religion--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Some students saw a woman who was not well acquainted...College is not opposed to religion or religious people...Is that part of your religion?"). Except for...Chatham held a World Religions panel during my first...understanding this because religion is not like that for...grade year, slacks for women. My family spent a...United States slavery of African people and wanted to...

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Newspaper Articles on: african woman religions

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Women Start 1st Islamic Sorority; Chapters Follow Religion's Rules

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 4, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Women Start 1st Islamic Sorority; Chapters Follow Religions Rules. Byline: Julia...include men." Thirteen women at the University of...District, made up of women from several local...mother who attended an African Methodist Episcopal...
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When the Twin Religions of 'Global Warming' and Shopping Collide ..

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 6, 2009

Subjects:

Air pollution, Emissions (Pollution), Global warming, Religions

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

When the Twin Religions of Global Warming and Shopping...beds. Clearly, this is a woman in need of psychiatric help...made climate change is a new religion. So I suppose it was only...with impunity and tinpot African states demand cynically that...would work, but most of the women I know would cheerfully slaughter...Sorry, but when the twin religions of shopping and global warming...
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THE DEVIL'S WORK?? Burned, Beaten, Cut with Knives.A New Police Report Claims That Child Abuse, and Even Murder, Is Practised in Some of Britain's African Churches. but What IS the Truth? the Mail Investigates

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 17, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...traditional African religions in an intoxicating...month, an Angolan woman, Sita Kisanga, was...among a small number of African parents that any misfortune...worker and member of the African community in North...church exorcisms. Many African communities believe...born head of charity Africans Unite Against Child...birthplace of the African religion of voodoo, whose followers...
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Meet the Muslim Madonna; Souad Massi Is Happy to Be World Music's Sexiest and Most Outspoken Star - Just Don't Ask Her to Speak for Her Religion

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 15, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Her to Speak for Her Religion. Byline: JANE CORNWELL...eclectic mix of North African, French and Sixties...spokesperson for Muslim women," she says, her doeeyes...those who regard Muslim women as subservient, controlled...happens to be a Muslim woman. Do people constantly...has forbidden Muslim women to wear headscarves...
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Religion -- Special Events

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 30, 2010

Subjects:

Musicians, Special events

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Religion -- Special Events...Elgin unit of Church Women United will celebrate...covered dish luncheon. Women and men from all faith...Vision," shows how women can work together to...Day celebrations. Each woman participating in FLC...From there, view the African savannah, rich with...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african woman religions

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Bermuda

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Bermudas inhabitants are of African ancestry, descended from...English is spoken. The main religions are the Anglican, Roman Catholic, African Methodist Episcopal, and...Pamela Gordon, the first woman premier. In 1998 the Progressive...
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Liberia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and the Mano. Traditional religions are practiced by about 40...about 20% of the people; African languages are used extensively...of freed American slaves. African-American immigrants were...Sirleaf became the first woman to be elected president of...

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