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From The Pew To The Pulpit - African American Women's Struggle To Gain And Maintain Leadership Positions Within The Church, Charlotte B. Chinn
From The Pew To The Pulpit - African American Women's Struggle To Gain And Maintain Leadership Positions Within The Church, Charlotte B. Chinn
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This thesis will explore how African-American women adopt a negotiated reading of the Bible and the church in order for reconciliation of their contradictory experiences as ministers. The personal stories of Black women preachers, who were interviewed for this project, will reveal how a negotiated reading allows them to reconcile the sexism within the structure and practices of the Black church with the significance of the church as a site of personal fulfillment and spiritual liberation. In order to explore how African American women adopted this negotiated reading of the Bible and the Church, this essay will examine the significance …