Yolanda Pierce
Biographic Data
| ID | 1707999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yolanda Pierce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yolanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Pierce |
| SIGNATURE | PIERCE Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Jersey City University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Womanist Ways and Pentecostalism
This essay questions the notion that a womanist identity and Pentecostal faith are mutually exclusive. Using major tenets of womanist theology, I argue for an honest recovery of all the personal and political influences on classical Pentecostalism as a way to move forward to a more egalitarian faith. Seeking to redress the lack of scholarship about women of color in early Pentecostalism, the essay raises questions that, I hope, will spur more res…
A Public Praise with Neither Purse Nor Scrip
Using Scripture to contest eighteenth- and nineteenth-century societal norms, Elizabeth’s memoir of her life in slavery contests the legal and cultural structures that rendered her as secondary, inferior, and subhuman. In answering the call to public ministry, Elizabeth embodies womanist ethics by being outrageous, audacious, and courageous in spite of the vocal opposition to her ministerial vocation
Woman-tology and the Future Face of Pentecostalism
Redeeming bondage
redeem (ri-'dEm) transitive verb.1) To recover ownership of by paying a specified sum.2) To set free; rescue or ransom.3) To save from a state of sinfulness and its consequences.4) To restore honor, worth, or reputation.
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponen…
Hell without Fires
Hell without Fires
The Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave
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The Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave
Hell without Fires
Redeeming bondage
redeem (ri-'dEm) transitive verb.1) To recover ownership of by paying a specified sum.2) To set free; rescue or ransom.3) To save from a state of sinfulness and its consequences.4) To restore honor, worth, or reputation.
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponen…
Hell without Fires
Woman-tology and the Future Face of Pentecostalism
Womanist Ways and Pentecostalism
This essay questions the notion that a womanist identity and Pentecostal faith are mutually exclusive. Using major tenets of womanist theology, I argue for an honest recovery of all the personal and political influences on classical Pentecostalism as a way to move forward to a more egalitarian faith. Seeking to redress the lack of scholarship about women of color in early Pentecostalism, the essay raises questions that, I hope, will spur more res…
A Public Praise with Neither Purse Nor Scrip
Using Scripture to contest eighteenth- and nineteenth-century societal norms, Elizabeth’s memoir of her life in slavery contests the legal and cultural structures that rendered her as secondary, inferior, and subhuman. In answering the call to public ministry, Elizabeth embodies womanist ethics by being outrageous, audacious, and courageous in spite of the vocal opposition to her ministerial vocation
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