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African American Female Mysticism

Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism

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  1. Joy R. Bostic
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Part of the book series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice (BRWT)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. African American Female Mysticism: The Nineteenth-Century Contextual Landscape

    • Joy R. Bostic
    Pages 1-26

  3. Defining Mysticism and the Sacred-Social Worlds of African American Women

    • Joy R. Bostic
    Pages 27-48

  4. Standing upon the Precipice: Community, Evil, and Black Female Subjectivity

    • Joy R. Bostic
    Pages 49-70

  5. God I Didn’t Know You Were So Big: Apophatic Mysticism and Expanding Worldviews

    • Joy R. Bostic
    Pages 71-93

  6. Look at What You Have Done: Sacred Power and Reimagining the Divine

    • Joy R. Bostic
    Pages 95-117

  7. Weaving the Spider’s Web: African American Female Mystical Activism

    • Joy R. Bostic
    Pages 119-142

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 143-179
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African-American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth Century Religious Activism is an important book-length treatment of African-American female mysticism. The primary subjects of this book are three icons of black female spirituality and religious activism - Jarena Lee, Sojourner Truth, and Rebecca Cox Jackson.

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Joy R. Bostic is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University, USA

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