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Daughters of
Thunder:
Black Women
Preachers and
Their Sermons
1850-1979,
Hardcover
By
Bettye
Collier-Thomas
Pages:
368
Size: 6"
x 9"
Publish
Date: 1997
Publisher:
JOSSEY-BASS
Though religion
and the church
have always
played an
important role
in the lives of
black Americans,
the role that
black women have
played in the
church is not as
well-known.
Daughters of
Thunder, a
collection of 38
sermons by 14
black women
preachers from
the 1850s to the
1970s, is thus
an important
resource: it
offers the
voices of black
women on matters
both theological
and political.
As editor Bettye
Collier-Thomas,
an associate
professor of
history at
Temple
University,
tells us, these
women are
representative
of a great
American
tradition
heretofore
largely unknown
and untapped.
In addition to
the sermons,
Collier-Thomas
gives readers a
historical
summary of the
work of black
women preachers,
as well as a
chapter on black
women preachers
for whom she was
able to find no
sermons. There
are also brief
biographies for
each of the 14
women whose
sermons are
included. |
