A Sorrowful Joy
A Spiritual Journey of an African-American Man in Late Twentieth-Century America
Albert Raboteau was born into a Catholic family in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, three months after his father was shot and killed by a white man. It was during the 1940s, when blacks couldn't swim at the same beach as whites, when the priest gave communion to white Catholics first and made others wait.In a moving account of his life, Raboteau tells how the boy grew into a man, married, became a success as a college administrator, then learned sorrow, lost his way and had to start over again. His is an American spiritual journey that is redolent of sacramental Christianity marking the sacredness of time, place, and community. The journey brough…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-72523-082-8
- EAN: 9781725230828
- Produktnummer: 34666642
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 60 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'651 KB
Über den Autor
Albert Raboteau is the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The text of this book was originally delivered as a Harold M. Wit Lecture and Harvard University Divinity School.
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