Feminist theology by black Baptist women was intellectually serious, not insipid

Evidence

Late nineteenth-century feminist theological writings call into question generalizations of an insipid, anti-intellectual religious tradition. The contribution of black Baptist women is especially noteworthy, for they were farthest removed from the American political-economic structure. Yet it was through the church, and specifically the black Baptist convention movement, that they established an arena for discussion, debate, and implementation of their social, economic, and political agenda vis-a-vis white America. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 680

Categorization

• XREF: Directly rebuts Ann Douglas’s The Feminization of American Culture claim about feminized religion being anti-intellectual and consumerist. — connects to: Black Baptist women fused a rhetoric of war with one of domesticity — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 670; Black women needed a separate feminist intellectual tradition; Baptist women, not just men, drove the conservative gender turn in the SBC — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 250 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Black women needed a separate feminist intellectual tradition #corroborates (0.75)
• Black Baptist women infused words like respectability with their own meanings through self-definition #expands (0.75) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1541
• Baptist women, not just men, drove the conservative gender turn in the SBC #corroborates (0.72) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 250
• Black Baptist women faced pulpit and voice denial even among supportive male leaders #qualifies (0.72) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 340