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Author: Joy James
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780415906371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the dilemmas and contributions of African American women struggling with Eurocentric disciplines, students, faculty and administrators in predominantly white institutions.
Author: Karen O'Donnell
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 2024-10-30
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 0334065054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrauma theology remains a rapidly growing field, considering as it does the impact that embodied experiences of trauma have on theological discourse. In this book, leading trauma theologian Karen O’Donnell turns her attention to the impact that trauma has on spiritual practice, and considers the ways that trauma might require a wholesale reimagining of spiritual practice into something more suitable and sustaining for trauma survivors.
Author: Cynthia Dillard
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2021-11-16
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0807013870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of how engaging identity and cultural heritage can transform teaching and learning for Black women educators in the name of justice and freedom in the classroom In The Spirit of Our Work, Dr. Cynthia Dillard centers the spiritual lives of Black women educators and their students, arguing that spirituality has guided Black people throughout the diaspora. She demonstrates how Black women teachers and teacher educators can heal, resist, and (re)member their identities in ways that are empowering for them and their students. Dillard emphasizes that any discussion of Black teachers’ lives and work cannot be limited to truncated identities as enslaved persons in the Americas. The Spirit of Our Work addresses questions that remain largely invisible in what is known about teaching and teacher education. According to Dillard, this invisibility renders the powerful approaches to Black education that are imbodied and marshaled by Black women teachers unknown and largely unavailable to inform policy, practice, and theory in education. The Spirit of Our Work highlights how the intersectional identities of Black women teachers matter in teaching and learning and how educational settings might more carefully and conscientiously curate structures of support that pay explicit and necessary attention to spirituality as a crucial consideration.
Author: Tisha M. Brooks
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2023-03-24
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0813948940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel, Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritual and travel narrative genres: Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Smith, and Nancy Prince. Brooks hereby challenges the divides between religious and literary studies, and between coerced and "free" passages within travel writing studies to reveal meaningful new connections in Black women’s writings. Bringing together both sacred and secular texts, Spirit Deep uncovers an enduring spiritual legacy of movement and power that Black women have claimed for themselves in opposition to the single story of the Black (female) body as captive, monstrous, and strange. Spirit Deep thus addresses the marginalization of Black women from larger conversations about travel writing, demonstrating the continuing impact of their spirituality and movements in our present world.
Author: Delores P. Aldridge
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2008-12-24
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0761841873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the lives of five unique, nationally known sociologists who are among the first African American women to receive doctorate degrees in this discipline. The histories of Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson, LaFrancis Rodgers-Rose, Joyce A. Ladner, Doris Wilkinson, and Delores P. Aldridge are accompanied by personal sociologies and detailed descriptions of unique areas of research they have used for social change. In each case, the reader will be able to see the intellectual and academic evolution of the sociologists as they built careers in their discipline. Further, the reader will be able to understand how these sociologists extended the very definition of the sociological enterprise by their movements between academic sociology and non-academic organizations, various social movements, and non-academic employment. Interviews with and analyses of the sociologists' published research are featured alongside their biographical information.
Author: George Yancy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1134954751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican-American Philosophers brings into conversation seventeen of the foremost thinkers of color to discuss issues such as Black existentialism, racism, Black women philosophers within the academy, affirmative action and the conceptual parameters of African-American philosophy.
Author: George Santayana
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 108
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Author: Alex Graham
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2018-04-20
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1504312538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only way humanity can ease its collective pain and suffering is through cooperation, but can you imagine our politicians standing for unconditional love in their daily political busyness of representing us, the people, who elected them to office? Chances are you cant, which is why we need a new model to govern our affairs. The Spiritual Busyness model asks the question of who we are in our daily busyness, including our elected officials. One of the reasons its so dynamic is its franchising aspect, which gives the model a pay-it-forward component that is practical and explosive. Franchise owners who share the model with others will generate outrageous cash flows. Moreover, the model comes with its own co-operative political movement and transformational workshop. The more community that is created, the more money that is made by everyone simply by sharing ideas rather than by capitalizing on them. People win, communities win, businesses win, banks win, and governments win. The best part is the winning is noninflationary, sustainable, and democraticand it will lead to vibrant communities of people doing what they love doing, which is just another name for service.
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Publisher: Urantia Book Fellowship
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Larry Carlat
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-11-19
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1538186608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForeword Reviews praises the book as "a sensitive guidebook for grieving parents…. Intimate, warm, and conversational in tone yet searing in its honesty," and says it " shows that while there is no ‘getting over’ the loss of a child, it is still possible, with time, to fill the heart’s emptiness with love and light.” A Space in the Heart is about the anguish that the death of a child brings and how to survive and thrive in its aftermath. It’s part memoir, part self-help, zero bullshit and 100 percent straight from the heart. It’s about our never-ending love for our lost children and how that love ultimately helps us transform and heal. In other words, it’s a roadmap for a road no one would ever choose to travel. Grief isn’t something that you overcome…but you can learn to live with it. It will take time. It will take work. It will take pain. It will take strength. It will take an open heart. It will take everything you have. It will take things that you didn’t know you had. That’s what this book is really about and what sets it apart. It’s about the specific heartache that the death of a child brings. It includes an honest retelling of the ups and downs of parenting an adopted son who struggled with addiction and mental illness. It’s a heartbreaking, at times surprisingly humorous, yet ultimately comforting guided tour through the hell of losing a child—a journey on which a parent can transform from ordinary to extraordinary. One of the many other things Larry Carlat learned is that grief lasts until the day we die. The question becomes—what do we want to do with it until then? How do we want to live our lives knowing that we’ve lost a vital piece of who we are? His greatest wish is that this book will help answer those existential questions and, above all, provide unwavering hope along the way.
