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Adrenée Glover Freeman Memorial Lecture
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes to Deliver 2007 Freeman Lecture
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, will deliver the 2007 Adrenée Glover Freeman Lecture in African American Women's Studies on Thursday, November 8, at 7:00 p.m., in Gambrell Hall Auditorium. The title of her lecture is "Symbiosis, Cooperation, and Community: The Politices of Black Women's Faith." The lecture will address her discovery of the need to re-examine the lives of women involved in social change with reference to their religious experience and faith. Sociologists' theories of secularization often dictated that people involved in progressive social change were very different from people with deep religious faith. The lecture will talk about the ways in which her ethnographic and "embedded research" within churches caused her to re-examine materials where she ignored the faith of activist women and will provide vivid examples of women whose portraits of political activism were enriched and more deeply nuanced once their faith and religious experiences were taken seriously.
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