Deliver Us from Evil: Resisting Racial and Gender OppressionDeliver Us From Evil explores the history of resistance to racial and gender oppression-from a slave woman in nineteenth-century America to a woman patient of Sigmund Freud-and traces the failed promises of the American Revolution in the oppression of subordinate groups. Poling reviews resistance by analyzing communities that understand evil as the abuse of power. Also treated are definitions of evil and debates between womanist and feminist theologians. Jesus emerges as a model for marginalized and oppressed people, as Poling calls for prophetic acts of solidarity to create new possibilities for healing and justice. |
Contents
RACE GENDER AND WHITE SUPREMACY The Case of Harriet Jacobs | 3 |
WOMEN AND MALE DOMINANCE The Case of Freud and Dora | 20 |
THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED How Freedom Was Suppressed | 41 |
EMANCIPATION FOR WHOM? How Racism and Sexism Survived Reconstruction | 63 |
CONTEMPORARY RESISTANCE AND BETRAYAL | 84 |
RESISTING EVIL IN THE NAME OF JESUS | 101 |
UNDERSTANDING RESISTANCE TO EVIL | 103 |
DEFINING EVIL | 110 |
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