Maureen O'Connell

Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness

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Produktbeschreibung

"The author goes on a pilgrimage of her family's history in Catholic parishes throughout one of the largest dioceses in the country to excavate the legacy of American Catholic anti-blackness she has inherited and discover spiritual resources for resisting it"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780807016657
• ISBN-10: 0807016659
• Artikelnr.: 61261441

Autorenporträt

Maureen H. O’Connell is associate professor and chair of the Department of Religion and Theology at LaSalle University. She authored Compassion: Loving Our Neighbor in an Age of Globalization and If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice. She is a member of POWER (Philadelphians Organizing to Witness, Empower, and Rebuild), an interfaith coalition of more than 50 congregations committed to making Philadelphia the city of “just love” through faith-based community organizing.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Mattering: St. Vincent de Paul
CHAPTER ONE
Witnessing: St. James
CHAPTER TWO
Aligning: Christ’s Church
CHAPTER THREE
Grafting: St. Agnes
CHAPTER FOUR
Manufacturing: St. Charles Borromeo
CHAPTER FIVE
Maneuvering: St. Stephen’s
CHAPTER SIX
Defending: The Church of the Gesu
CHAPTER SEVEN
Homesteading: St. Francis of Assisi
CHAPTER EIGHT
Doubting: Catholic Higher Education
EPILOGUE
Undoing
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index