Colored women sittin' on high : womanist sermonic practice in literature and music /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hill, Melanie R. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Womanist theology. African American women clergy. Sermons > History and criticism. Sermons in literature. African American women in literature. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans > Music > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

When the Preachers Dance / by Rev. Dr. Claudette Anderson Copeland
Left-Handed Sermons in a Right-Handed World: Pauli Murray, Quadruple-Consciousness, and the Art of the Sermon in African American Literature
"A Womanist Vibe with a Blues Sensibility": Disrupting Heaven Through Sermon and Song in Their Eyes Were Watching God
"Armed with the Word and Shaped by the Blues": Toward a Womanist Hermeneutic of Regeneration in The Amen Corner and Just Above My Head
Tongues on Fire: Black Women and the Making of Sermonic Space
We, Too, Preach Freedom: A Symphony of Sermonic Sound
"Sound Falls 'Round Me Like Rain": Toward a Womanist Sermonic Aesthetic in the Sermon-Songs of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Aretha Franklin, Shirley Caesar, Jill Scott, Ursula Rucker, and Ms. Lauryn Hill
Coda. When the Women Preach / by Melanie R. Hill ; Who Are We? / by Cynthia L. Hale.