Refiner's Fire - A Religious Engagement with Violence

ISBN 10: 0800632532 / ISBN 13: 9780800632533

Published by Fortress Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Refiner's Fire - A Religious Engagement with Violence
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0800632532
• ISBN 13: 9780800632533
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

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, for good and ill, in the Bible, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the youth scene of today.

About the Author

Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan is an African American womanist theologian; a professor, author, and poet; and an elder in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. She is professor emerita of religion and women's studies, as well as director of Women's Studies, at Shaw University Divinity School.