Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change

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Almeda M. Wright (Associate Professor of Religious Education, Associate Professor of Religious Education, Yale Divinity School)

Teaching to Live

Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change

Almeda M. Wright (Associate Professor of Religious Education, Associate Professor of Religious Education, Yale Divinity School)

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Oxford University Press Inc
23 April 2024

Religion: general; Christian theology; Christian institutions & organisations; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Philosophy & theory of education

Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change interrogates the stories of African American activist-educators whose faith convictions inspired them to educate in radical and transformative ways. Many of these educators are known only or primarily for their educational theory or activism, and their religious convictions have often been obscured or outright ignored. Almeda M. Wright seeks to rectify this omission, exploring the connections between religion, education, and struggles for freedom within twentieth-century African American communities by telling the stories of key African American teachers.

Wright brings together the lives and work of three related subgroups of activist-educators: those who worked in public or secular education but were religiously inspired; radical scholars who transformed the ways that Black religion and Black religious life are studied and valued; and radical religious educators, or those educators who were involved more formally with the religious formation of Black people but who regarded this work of spiritual development as part of the struggle for freedom and liberation of all people. She begins with the reflections of Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and Nannie Helen Burroughs, who attempted to transform American society by expanding the involvement of African Americans as contributors to all aspects of American life, especially the religious, intellectual, and cultural spheres. Wright also examines the activist-educators at the center of the mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement, such as the religious and lay leaders Septima Clark and James Lawson, and the cadre of student leaders and teachers they trained. Finally, she investigates how the models of religious activist-educators Olivia Pearl Stokes and Albert Cleage emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century at the same time that questions about the centrality of Black Christianity in the African American community and Black activism began to take shape. The rich and complex narratives of these educators show how religion, education, and radical social change can intersect. This book invites readers to continue exploring how these concepts will evolve for future generations of activist-educators.

By: Almeda M. Wright (Associate Professor of Religious Education Associate Professor of Religious Education Yale Divinity School)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 163mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 478g
ISBN: 9780197663424
ISBN 10: 0197663427
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 23 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Religion, Education and Radical Social Change Section I: Telling our own Stories 1. Anna Julia Cooper 2. W. E. B. Du Bois Section II: Teaching to Live 3. Ida B. Wells 4. Nannie Helen Burroughs Section III: Radical Love, Citizenship and Education 5. Septima Poinsett Clark 6. James Lawson Section IV: Radical Black Religious Education, Post Civil Rights 7. Olivia Pearl Stokes 8. Albert Cleage, Jr. Conclusion: Looking Backward to Move Forward Bibliography

Almeda M. Wright is Associate Professor of Religious Education at Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on African American religion, Womanist spirituality, adolescent spiritual development, and the intersections of religion, education, and public life. She is the author of The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans and editor of Children, Youth, and Spirituality in a Troubling World (with Mary Elizabeth Moore).

Reviews for Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change

Wright provides the most important work on religious education in a generation. The religious activist educator grounded in the lives and histories of Black faith and justice leaders is an identity and vocation that will be taught, shared, and lived by future generations of religious educators. * Patrick B. Reyes, Ph.D., Dean, Auburn Theological Seminary * Teaching to Live convenes a gathering of heroic and prophetic educators across the boundaries of history and ideology. Wright's selection of people such as Baptist Burroughs, Congregational Cleage, Episcopal Cooper, and Methodist Lawson also underscores the ecumenical undercurrent that has nurtured the Black Church as a force for social change. This book is a rich exploration of the intersections of biography, history, and social structure in the lives of these African American Christian educators, all of whom provide models for engaging current struggles involving faith and social justice. * Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, Emerita *