Refiners Fire : A Religious Engagement With Violence

1. Eyes On The Prize: Womanist Reflections
2. Take No Prisoners: Women Engaged In Biblical Violence
3. Lay My Burden Down: Spirituality Transcends Antebellum Violence
4. Sojourner’s Sisters: 1960s Women Freedom Fighters Right Civil Wrongs
5. Ballads, Not Bullets: The Nonviolent Protest Ministry Of Martin Luther King Jr.
6. Soul Sisters: Girls In Gangs And Sororities
7. Build Up, Break Down: Language As Empowerment And Annihilation
8. Daughters Of Zelophehad: A Constructive Analysis Of Violence
9. Death As Worship: Celebrating Dying As Part Of Life

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What does religion have to do with fomenting or transcending violence? In this fascinating work, Kirk-Duggan documents and analyzes religion’s involvement in violence, in the Bible, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the youth scene of today.