Black Baptist women fused a rhetoric of war with one of domesticity

Evidence

The black women in the Baptist church fused the rhetoric of war with that of domesticity. They represented themselves as the “home force” while at the same time exhorting one another to assume the role of valiant “soldier”—to go out into the “highways and hedges” and forge the “link between the church militant and the church triumphant.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 670

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black racial idealization repurposed essentialist traits to negate white superiority — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 669; Black Baptist women infused words like respectability with their own meanings through self-definition — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1541; Feminist theology by black Baptist women was intellectually serious, not insipid — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 680 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist women infused words like respectability with their own meanings through self-definition #expands (0.88) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1541
• Feminist theology by black Baptist women was intellectually serious, not insipid #expands (0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 680
• Evangelical women were celebrated for combining feminine beauty with militant combative politics #exemplifies (0.78) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 532
• The black church simultaneously united and divided men and women by gender #qualifies (0.75) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 702