Table of Contents: Prophesying daughters :

Main Author:	Haywood, Chanta M., 1968-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2003.
Subjects:	African American women clergy > History > 19th century. African American women clergy > History > 20th century. Prophecy > Christianity > History. African American Women. Women Clergy. Prophecy > Christianity. RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Preaching. African American women clergy.
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Table of Contents:

The prophesying daughters : biographical and historical background
The act of prophesying : nineteenth-century Black women preachers and Black literary history
Prophetic change : Jarena Lee's and Julia Foote's uses of conversion rhetoric in the context of reader distrust
Prophetic journeying : the trope of travel in Black women preachers' narratives
Prophetic reading : Black women preachers and biblical interpretation
Prophetic works : prophesying daughters and social activism
the case of Frances Joseph Gaudet
Can I get a witness? : the implications of prophesying for African American literary studies.