Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon

ISBN-13: 9780199338665 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str.

Quincy D. Newell

Opis

Your Sister in the Gospel is the first scholarly biography of Jane Manning James or, for that matter, any black Mormon. Quincy D. Newell chronicles the life of this remarkable yet largely unknown figure and reveals why James's story changes our understanding of American history.

Recenzje

Your Sister in the Gospel is a must-read ... The book is free of jargon, which makes it accessible to a wide readership, without sacrificing quality or buying into easy conclusions.

O autorze

Quincy D. Newell is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hamilton College. She has published several books and essays on the experiences of religious and racial/ethnic minorities in the American West. Among other honors, Newell received the 2018 Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize from the American Society of Church History and the 2017 Best Article in Mormon Women's History prize from the Mormon History Association for her work on Jane James.