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Article: Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith.(Book Review)
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- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- December 22, 2005
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Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith, by MARLA F. FREDERICK. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003, 275 pp.; $50.00 USD (cloth), $19.95 USD (paper).
While, as Frederick begins, social scientists are compelled to "discuss the significance of gender, race and class" to understand people's activities in the social world, we have neglected to "consider seriously the impact of spirituality" on people's actions. It is this failure to examine how the individual practice of faith outside the church influences the social conscience and community efforts to which Frederick devotes her attention in this volume.
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