To Speak a Defiant Word

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Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation

By Pauli Murray

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To Speak a Defiant Word gathers twenty-five years of sermons, lectures, and speeches by Pauli Murray, a nonbinary Black lawyer, activist, poet, and Episcopal priest. Collected by Anthony B. Pinn, the book highlights Murray's evolving religious thought and activism from 1960 to 1985. It explores major themes such as women's rights, faithfulness, religious community, and suffering, revealing Murray's influential voice in challenging racism, sexism, and class oppression during a pivotal era in American history.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in religion and spirituality, social justice, civil rights history, feminist and queer theology, as well as those fascinated by influential but often overlooked voices in American religious activism.

Twenty-five years of writings by the religious thinker and activist Pauli Murray

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Twenty-five years of writings by the religious thinker and activist Pauli Murray

The religious thought and activism that shaped the late twentieth century is typically described in terms of Black men from the major Black denominations, a depiction that fails to account for the voices of those who not only challenged racism but also forced a confrontation with class and gender. Of these overlooked voices, none is more important than that of Pauli Murray (1910–1985), the nonbinary Black lawyer, activist, poet, and Episcopal priest who influenced such icons as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall.

Anthony B. Pinn has collected Murray’s most important sermons, lectures, and speeches from 1960 through 1985, showcasing her religious thought and activism as well as her original and compassionate literary voice. In highlighting major themes in Murray’s writing—including the strength and rights of women, faithfulness, religious community, and suffering—Pinn’s collection reveals the evolution in Murray’s religious ideas and her sense of ministry, unpacking her role in a tumultuous period of American history, as well as her thriving legacy.

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"This is a compelling compendium of Murray's theological insights and spiritual yearnings. True food for thought and for the soul and a call to each of us to live lives of justice and hope." — Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt University Divinity School

"Pauli Murray's life was remarkable by any stretch of the imagination, and it was lived at the crossroads of the 20th century’s struggle with civil rights, equal rights, women’s rights, and labour movements. In this necessary, original, and accessible collection, Anthony Pinn helps us embrace Pauli Murray with head, heart, and humanity." — Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University Divinity School

"Though she stepped into the pulpit late in life, Pauli Murray was a prophetic preacher throughout the 20th century, confronting the principalities of sexism and racism with her typewriter and her direct action."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300268065

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 September 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Contributors:

Edited by Anthony B. Pinn
Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 416

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Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Pauli Murray Religion & Spirituality

About the Author

Pauli Murray (1910–1985), a pathbreaking activist and religious thinker and the first African American woman ordained an Episcopal priest, was a leading figure in the fight for race and gender equality. Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities and professor of religion at Rice University. His books include Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together; The Black Church in the Post–Civil Rights Era; and Varieties of African American Religious Experience. Michael Eric Dyson is University Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University and the author of Tears We Cannot Stop.