Author Meets Critics: AnneMarie Mingo, Have You Got Good Religion? Black Women's Faith, Courage, and moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement

The Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. Unit, in conjunction with the Womanist Approaches to the Study of Religion Unit, is excited to host this roundtable on AnneMarie Mingo's 2024 University of Illinois Press publication, Have you Got Good Religion? Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement. From the Publisher: "What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit her? The thousands of Black Churchwomen who took part in civil rights protests drew on faith, courage, and moral imagination to acquire the lived experiences at the heart of the answers to that question. AnneMarie Mingo brings these forgotten witnesses into the historical narrative to explore the moral and ethical world of a generation of Black Churchwomen and the extraordinary liberation theology they created." In this session, our panelists will engage and think with Mingo in relation to the arguments of the text. AnneMarie Mingo will offer a response. Co-sponsored with Womanist Approaches to the Study of Religon Unit.