Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience Paperback – June 1, 2009

Really enjoyable and informative text. Easy to read, critically engaging. Uncommon Faithfulness is worth your time if you are interested in theology or religious studies.

Arrived on time. Good condition .

Interested in Black Catholic Communities....recently.Substantially newer that TAKING DOWN OUR HARPS.I enjoyed slightly more.

This book is the anchor for an undergraduate course I teach on "The Black Catholic Experience." High points include the lucid opening essay by Albert Raboteau - offering 4 historical models for thinking through the relationship of religion and race - and the evocative meditation on theology and the blues by Shawn Copeland. Also superb is the historical study by Celia Moore of the attempted desegregation of Catholic parishes in Raleigh, North Carolina by Bishop Vincent S. Waters in 1953. This is riveting material and, especially for white Catholics, a crucial part of the Catholic "family history" too often obscured, denied, or completely left out. How many Catholic schoolchildren are taught the remarkable stories of Daniel Rudd or Henriette Delille, or learn the prophetic role of Black Catholic clergy in the Civil Rights Movement?From filling in some of these yawning gaps in US Catholic history to rich contemporary insights into the beauty and gifts of black Catholic liturgy, theology, ministerial leadership, and spirituality, on the whole this volume more than lives up to its title, awakening a sense of wonder at the "uncommon faithfulness" of Black Catholic history and spirituality.