Religious Despite Religion : Lesbian agency, identity, and spirituality at Liberation In Truth, Unity Fellowship Church, Newark

ISBN-13: 9783846590577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str.

Aryana Bates

Opis

The members of Liberation In Truth, Unity Fellowship Church of Newark, NJ, create religious community as a spiritual practice. This dissertation presents these Black lesbian women s perspectives on identity, religion, and spirituality. The study illustrates what it means to be a moral agent under multiple forms of oppression, to show the delicate, dynamic balance between preexistent social location and generative moral agency.

O autorze

Aryana Bates finished a PhD in Religious Studies in 2001, and took a Masters in Library Science in 2004. She currently teaches Anthropology and serves as an Instruction and Reference Librarian to community college students. Aryana lives in Seattle, Washington.