On Fire In Baltimore: Black Mormon Women And Conversion In A Raging City (Greg Kofford Books)

When Laura Strickling moved to Baltimore as a doctoral student at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, she became acquainted with the Black women in her congregation. She began interviewing the women of On Fire in Baltimore as a linguistic study, but soon discovered that their conversion narratives emerged from racially-entangled events. These devout women of color tell stories of drug addiction and rape, of nights spent in jail and days looking for work, of single motherhood and grief for lost children. Yet, their stories are also filled with visitations from heavenly beings, dreams of deceased mothers, protection from violence, and missionary messengers. They share how they reconcile their membership in a historically White church that once denied them full membership. Strickling takes the reader on an intimate journey where Black and White racialized lives meet, where she is compelled to question how her own whiteness has impacted her perspective, and where an unquenchable spiritual fire burns bright in a raging city.

• | Author: Laura Rutter Strickling
• | Publisher: Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated
• | Publication Date: Oct 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 210 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1589587162
• | ISBN-13: 9781589587168