If It Wasn't for the Women maryknoll concerned primarily with living out

concerned primarily with living out Jesus' commandment to love your neighbor

and is author of The First White Frost

Arnold Snyder teaches at Conrad Grebel College

This first comprehensive account of Christianity as a world religion is a landmark

If It Wasn't for the Women maryknoll concerned primarily with living outThese collected essays examine the roles of women in their churches and communities, the implication of those roles for African American culture, and the tensions and stereotypes that shape societal responses to these roles. Gilkes examines the ways black women and their experience shape the culture and consciousness of the black religious experience, and reflects on some of the crises and conflicts that attend this experience. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes