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Remnants Rosemarie Freeney Harding

Remnants By Rosemarie Freeney Harding

Remnants by Rosemarie Freeney Harding

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Remnants 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.

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Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering by Rosemarie Freeney Harding

An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding's spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian Candomble. Remnants, a multigenre memoir, demonstrates how Freeney Harding's spiritual life and social justice activism were integral to the instincts of mothering, healing, and community-building. Following Freeney Harding's death in 2004, her daughter Rachel finished this decade-long collaboration, using recorded interviews, memories of her mother, and her mother's journal entries, fiction, and previously published essays.

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[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 *
Co-authored by Rachel and her late mother, [Remnants] 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 *
Remnants will 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 Remnants.... Remnants provides hope for a better humanity. -- Dean J. Johnson * Mennonite Quarterly Review *

About Rosemarie Freeney Harding

Rosemarie Freeney Harding (1930-2004) was an organizer, teacher, social worker, and cofounder of Mennonite House, an early integrated community center in Atlanta. She also cofounded the Veterans of Hope Project at the Iliff School of Theology.

Rachel Elizabeth Harding, daughter of Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Vincent Harding, is Associate Professor of Indigenous Spiritual Traditions in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Denver, and author of A Refuge in Thunder: Candomble and Alternative Spaces of Blackness.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Daughter's Precis / Rachel E. Harding ix

1. (the light) 1

I. Ground 5

2. Rye's Rites (poem) 7

3. Grandma Rye 9

4. There Was a Tree in Starkville . . . 15

5. Daddy's Mark 21

6. Joe Daniels: Getting Unruly 24

7. The Side of the Road 29

8. Papa's Girl 32

II. North 41

9. Snow and Spring in Woodlawn 43

10. Shirley Darden 52

11. Brother Bud's Death 54

12. Death, Dreams, and Secrecy: Things We Carried 57

13. Season 63

14. Elegant Cousins and Original Beauty 66

15. Warmth 71

16. Altgeld Gardens 75

17. Hot Rolls (short fiction) 82

18. Looking for Work 92

19. The Nursing Test 96

20. In Loco Parentis (short fiction) 97

21. Mama Freeney and the Haints 107

22. Height 113

III. South 115

23. Hospitality, Haints, and Healing: African American Indigenous Religion and Activism 117

24. Mennonite House in Atlanta 127

25. The Next-Door Neighbor 137

26. Traveling for the Movement 140

27. Koinonia Farm: Cultivating Conviction 144

28. A Radical Compassion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Clarence Jordan, and Marion King-Jackson 155

29. A Song in the Time of Dying: A Memory of Bernice Johnson Reagon 163

30. The Blood House (a story outline) 165

31. Spirit and Struggle: The Mysticism of the Movement 168

IV. The Dharamsala Notebook 179

32. Sunrise after Delhi (poem) 181

33. The Dharamsala Notebook I 182

34. The Dharamsala Notebook II 194

V. Bunting 199

35. The Bunting 201

36. The Workshops and Retreats: Ritual, Remembering, and Medicine 217

VI. The Pachamama Circle 227

37. Pachamama Circle I: Rachel's Dream 229

38. Pachamama Circle II: Sue Bailey Thurman and the Harriets 231

39. Pachamama Circle III: A Choreography of Mothering 237

40. Mama and the Gods 241

AfterWords 243

41. Fugida: Poem for Oya 245

42. Class Visits: Love, White Southerners, and Black Exceptionalism 247

43. A Little Wind 265

44. (the Call) 268

Appendix: Rosemarie's Genealogies 271

Acknowledgments 283

Index 287

Additional information

CIN0822358794G
9780822358794
0822358794
Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering by Rosemarie Freeney Harding
Rosemarie Freeney Harding
Used - Good
Paperback
Duke University Press
2015-05-15
328
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