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This timely and fascinating historical study of Protestant women
will increase the appreciation of their continuing struggle for
acceptance within their churches and of their contribution to the
success of the Protestant movement. An introductory chapter traces
the origins of female subordination and exclusion from the
preaching ministry, a practice that was reinforced by Protestant
interpretations of Scripture. In essays contributed by recognized
specialists, women's roles both in the early development of
Protestant sects and in supporting established churches are
examined, and their contributions--through teaching, charitable
activities, donations, writing, speech making and publishing--are
noted. This volume includes an account of Protestant women's
involvement in reform movements and their prolonged struggle for
ordination and acceptance in the preaching ministry.
Every year on the Friday before Labor Day, Guyanese from all over
the world convene in Brooklyn, New York, to celebrate the
accidental tradition of Come to My Kwe-Kwe and to connect or
reconnect with other Guyanese. Since the fall of 2005, they have
celebrated Come to My Kwe-Kwe (more recently, Kwe-Kwe Night), a
reenactment of a uniquely African Guyanese prewedding ritual called
kweh-kweh, also known as karkalay, mayan, kweh-keh, or pele. Come
to My Kwe-Kwe has increasingly become a symbol of African
Guyaneseness. In this volume, Rediasporization: African Guyanese
Kwe-Kwe, Gillian Richards-Greaves examines the role of Come to My
Kwe-Kwe in the construction of a secondary African Guyanese
diaspora (a rediasporization) in New York City. She explores how
African Guyanese in the United States draw on the ritual to
articulate their tripartite cultural identities: African, Guyanese,
and American. This work also investigates the factors that affect
African Guyanese perceptions of their racial and gendered selves,
and how these perceptions, in turn, impact their engagement with
African-influenced cultural performances like Come to My Kwe-Kwe.
This work demonstrates how the malleability of this celebration
allows African Guyanese to negotiate, highlight, conceal, and even
sometimes reject complex, shifting, overlapping, and contextual
identities. Ultimately, this work explores how these performances
in the United States facilitate African Guyanese transformation
from an imagined community to a tangible community.
This is a major reinterpretation of John Bunyan, a prolific author
best known for his two allegories, "The Pilgrim's Progress" and
"The Holy War," and his spiritual autobiography, "Grace Abounding."
In this book, Richard L. Greaves draws on recent literature on
depression to demonstrate that Bunyan suffered from this mood
disorder as a young man and then used this experience to help mold
his literary works. Light and darkness, joy and sadness, despair
and hope became key literary motifs.
In this biography, each of Bunyan's works, including the dozen
published posthumously, is analyzed in its immediate historical
context. "The Pilgrim's Progress," although not published until
1678, takes its rightful place as a contribution to the momentous
debate over conscience between 1667 and 1673. This historical
approach, as distinct from the literary one favored by nearly all
of Bunyan's biographers, reveals the changes in his views over
time, including his interest in the millenarian Fifth Monarchists
in the 1650s, his circumspect endorsement of militant action to
block the anticipated succession of James, duke of York, in the
1680s, his retreat from this position following the disclosure of
the Rye House conspiracy, and his cooperation with James II's
government when it offered toleration to dissenters.
Bunyan's extraordinary ability to rouse the imaginations of his
readers is shown to be rooted in his intense spirituality and
powerful creativity, and given emotive force by his deep sympathy
for the poor and oppressed and his fierce commitment to the
principle that truth must be free. Two periods in prison, one
lasting more than eleven years, failed to crush his spirit.
Unbroken, he emerged from confinement to continue his preaching and
writing, having honed a regime of composition that served him well
as a free man. No less significant was his triumph over
debilitating depressive moods that left him with a keen sensitivity
to the importance of light, warmth, and love. Bunyan's potent
creativity enabled him to turn his experiences into a gripping
spiritual autobiography and two major allegories that attest to his
triumph over crippling despair and a repressive government.
This volume is a comprehensive collection of articles on Bunyan as
well as including several broader views of the Nonconformist
tradition.
Every year on the Friday before Labor Day, Guyanese from all over
the world convene in Brooklyn, New York, to celebrate the
accidental tradition of Come to My Kwe-Kwe and to connect or
reconnect with other Guyanese. Since the fall of 2005, they have
celebrated Come to My Kwe-Kwe (more recently, Kwe-Kwe Night), a
reenactment of a uniquely African Guyanese prewedding ritual called
kweh-kweh, also known as karkalay, mayan, kweh-keh, or pele. Come
to My Kwe-Kwe has increasingly become a symbol of African
Guyaneseness. In this volume, Rediasporization: African Guyanese
Kwe-Kwe, Gillian Richards-Greaves examines the role of Come to My
Kwe-Kwe in the construction of a secondary African Guyanese
diaspora (a rediasporization) in New York City. She explores how
African Guyanese in the United States draw on the ritual to
articulate their tripartite cultural identities: African, Guyanese,
and American. This work also investigates the factors that affect
African Guyanese perceptions of their racial and gendered selves,
and how these perceptions, in turn, impact their engagement with
African-influenced cultural performances like Come to My Kwe-Kwe.
This work demonstrates how the malleability of this celebration
allows African Guyanese to negotiate, highlight, conceal, and even
sometimes reject complex, shifting, overlapping, and contextual
identities. Ultimately, this work explores how these performances
in the United States facilitate African Guyanese transformation
from an imagined community to a tangible community.
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