Document Type

Article

African-American churches: Women feeling the Spirit take some by surprise

Authors

Kathryn Ritchie, University of Maine

Publication Title

The Maine Campus

Publication Date

4-21-1997

First Page

5

Issue Number

76

Volume Number

114

Abstract/ Summary

When Cheryl Townsend Gilkes was a little girl, she leaned over to her mother in their normally sedate, traditional New England church one day to ask why Mrs. Sinclair was shouting. "She feels the Spirit," her mother explained in a whisper. Gilkes marveled at the older woman's curious behavior at the time, but now smiles in understanding.

Comments

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Identifier

Social Justice_Maine_Campus_vol_114_no_76_p_5_1997-04-21

Repository Citation

Ritchie, Kathryn, "African-American churches: Women feeling the Spirit take some by surprise" (1997). Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. 265.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice/265

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