Biography: religious & spiritual
In Darkness with God
The Life of Joseph Gomez, a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
by Annetta GomezJefferson (author)
Description
Joseph Gomez (1890–1979) was a charismatic minister who rose through the ranks of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to be ordained a bishop in 1948. He was also a teacher, civil right pioneer, scholar, writer, and humanitarian. His daughter, Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson, has drawn on letters, journals, and church records to write his biography and a history of the age in which he lived.
Gomez-Jefferson captures the growing concern of the Black middle-class with civil rights and its persistent attempts to confront problems with tactics less confrontational than those of the sixties and seventies.
More than a biography, In Darkness with God is a history of Black life during the early part of the century and a chronicle of the political and religious struggles of the first autonomous Black church in the United States.
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Kent State University Press
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780873386074 / 0873386078
- Publication Country or regionUS
- FormatCased
- Primary Price 35 USD
- Pages504
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- ResponsibilityCatherine A. Brekus.
- Page size25
- Illustrationill., facsims.,ports.
- Biblio NotesPapers presented at several seminars and conferences.
- SeriesGender and American Culture
- Reference CodeBDZ0001539110
