{"product_id":"remnants-9780822358688","title":"Remnants","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemnants\u003c\/i\u003e is the spiritual memoir of Civil Rights Movement activist Rosemarie Freeney Harding. She was a religious woman whose spirituality blended several religious practices. Following her death in 2004, her daughter Rachel finished her memoir, recorded interviews, her mother's journal entries, poems, previously published essays, and a lifetime of conversations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] spirited compilation of ecumenical history, folk wisdom, fiction, memoir, and poetry. . . . The central message of Harding’s life is abiding love, passed down through generations, strengthened in the aftermath of grief, racial terrorism, and trauma. The book also tells the unusual story of Mennonite House, a pioneering center of interracial activism in Atlanta co-founded by Harding and her husband, and offers other insights that shape its powerful narrative.” * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Co-authored by Rachel and her late mother, [\u003ci\u003eRemnants\u003c\/i\u003e] is in its very composition both intimate and collaborative. ...It is a book of returning to the source as a resource for the future and present. There are lessons about human connection and resilience, and our capacities to be better to one another. Out of the particulars of these two lives, a window opens into Black life more broadly, in all of its complexity and interconnectedness with the vast networks of humanity.\" -- Imani Perry * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRemnants \u003c\/i\u003ewill appeal to those who are interested in religion and social transformation. Social change advocates, justice seekers, grassroots organizers, nonviolent revolutionaries, race critical theorists, theologians, clergy, historians, womanists, ethicists, ancl educators will all find gems within \u003ci\u003eRemnants\u003c\/i\u003e.... \u003ci\u003eRemnants \u003c\/i\u003eprovides hope for a better humanity.\" -- Dean J. Johnson * Mennonite Quarterly Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Daughter's Précis \/ Rachel E. Harding  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. (the light)  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I. Ground  5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rye's Rites (poem)  7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Grandma Rye  9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. There Was a Tree in Starkville . . .  15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Daddy's Mark  21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Joe Daniels: Getting Unruly  24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Side of the Road  29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Papa's Girl  32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II. North  41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Snow and Spring in Woodlawn  43\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Shirley Darden  52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Brother Bud's Death  54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Death, Dreams, and Secrecy: Things We Carried  57\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Season  63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. Elegant Cousins and Original Beauty  66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15. Warmth  71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16. Altgeld Gardens  75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 17. Hot Rolls (short fiction)  82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18. Looking for Work  92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Nursing Test  96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 20.  In Loco Parentis (short fiction)  97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 21. Mama Freeney and the Haints  107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 22. Height  113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III. South  115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 23. Hospitality, Haints, and Healing: African American Indigenous Religion and Activism  117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 24. Mennonite House in Atlanta  127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 25. The Next-Door Neighbor  137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 26. Traveling for the Movement  140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 27. Koinonia Farm: Cultivating Conviction  144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 28. A Radical Compassion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Clarence Jordan, and Marion King-Jackson  155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 29. A Song in the Time of Dying: A Memory of Bernice Johnson Reagon  163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 30. The Blood House (a story outline)  165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 31. Spirit and Struggle: The Mysticism of the Movement  168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e IV. The Dharamsala Notebook  179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 32. Sunrise after Delhi (poem)  181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 33. The Dharamsala Notebook I  182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 34. The Dharamsala Notebook II  194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e V. Bunting 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 35. The Bunting  201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 36. The Workshops and Retreats: Ritual, Remembering, and Medicine  217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VI. The Pachamama Circle  227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 37. Pachamama Circle I: Rachel's Dream  229\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 38. Pachamama Circle II: Sue Bailey Thurman and the Harriets  231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 39. Pachamama Circle III: A Choreography of Mothering  237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 40. Mama and the Gods  241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e AfterWords  243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 41. Fugida: Poem for Oyá  245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 42. Class Visits: Love, White Southerners, and Black Exceptionalism  247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 43. A Little Wind  265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 44. (the Call)  268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Rosemarie's Genealogies  271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  287","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406086644055,"sku":"9780822358688","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822358688.jpg?v=1730494481","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/remnants-9780822358688","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}