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Moving the rock- [e-book] : poverty and faith in a Black storefront church.
Moving the rock- [e-book] : poverty and faith in a Black storefront church.
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- 전자책
- ISBN
- 0759113211
- ISBN
- 9780759113190
- ISBN
- 9780759113206
- ISBN
- 9780759113213
- 저자명
- Mary E. Abrums.
- 서명/저자
- Moving the rock - [e-book] : poverty and faith in a Black storefront church. Mary E. Abrums
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2010.
- 형태사항
- 253 p.
- 내용주기
- Moving the rock: poverty and faith in a Black storefront church -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: A SHORT HISTORY -- PART ONE: MORNING SUN MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH -- CHAPTER ONE: MORNING SUN CHURCH AND ITS LEADERS -- CHAPTER TWO: THE FAMILY -- CHAPTER THREE: MOTHERHOOD: "SOMEBODY PRAYED FOR ME" -- PART TWO: THE WOMEN OF MORNING SUN CHURCH -- THE LAKE FAMILY -- CHAPTER FOUR: MOLLY LAKE LANDER: "I GUESS I HAVE TO GO TO JESUS" -- CHAPTER FIVE: CAREN LAKE: "HAVING A DREAM" -- CHAPTER SIX: MAHALIA LAKE: "I DON'T ASK THE LORD TO MOVE THE MOUNTAIN; JUST GIVE ME THE STRENGTH TO CLIMB IT" -- MABLE JACKSON -- CHAPTER SEVEN: MABLE JACKSON: "ALL I ASKED THE LORD FOR WAS A MAN WITH A CIGARETTE AND A JOB" -- THE JONES FAMILY -- CHAPTER EIGHT: BETTY JONES: "I LIKE TO GO!" -- CHAPTER NINE: JOANN JONES NEWTON: "WHEN GOD COMES, HE'S GETTING SOME OF EVERY RACE" -- CHAPTER TEN: MARIE JONES SMITH: "GETTING THAT MADE-UP MIND" -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: LINDA WILSON, MARIE'S DAUGHTER: "ALL THESE YEARS I HAVE BECOME STRONGER" -- PART THREE: THE RESEARCH PROCESS -- CHAPTER TWELVE: THE RESEARCH, THE WOMEN, AND ME -- APPENDIX: RESEARCH QUESTION, THEORIES, AND METHODS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- 초록/해제
- 요약 : Moving the Rock portrays several generations of African American women whose families migrated from the South to the Pacific Northwest in the 1940s and 1950s. As members of a small storefront church in central Seattle, these women—grandmothers, mothers, daughters—lean on their faith and church to face the challenges of poverty, racism, ignorance, and health. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it is painfully obvious that many of us know little about what it is like to be poor and Black in the United States. These powerful, profound stories bring this group of women and their problems, and joys, vividly and movingly to life.
- 기타 저자
- Mary E. Abrums
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- Control Number
- chimsin:483619