Feminine imagery of God circulated into black communities through syndicated white sermons.
Evidence
Popular ministers such as T. DeWitt Talmage referred to the “motherhood of God”; Laurence Oliphant urged the necessity of recognizing the “divine feminine principle in God”; and Frances Willard spoke of the “mother-heart” of God. Some of this discussion filtered into black communities. For example, The Baptist Headlight, a black newspaper in Topeka, Kansas, printed the Reverend Talmage’s sermons in a syndicated column. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 642
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: White and black Baptist women’s missionary work created cross-racial sisterhoods — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 430; Black Baptist women blended feminine and masculine self-images as homemakers and soldiers — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 650; Black Baptist women invoked biblical heroines to justify denominational gender parity — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 594 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Black Baptist women blended feminine and masculine self-images as homemakers and soldiers
#exemplifies(0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 650 - White and black Baptist women’s missionary work created cross-racial sisterhoods
#qualifies(0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 430 - Black Baptist women invoked biblical heroines to justify denominational gender parity
#expands(0.76) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 594 - Black Baptists formed a racially bounded imagined community claiming sovereign autonomy from white control
#complicates(0.75) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1076