Remnants
A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering
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- $28.99
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- $28.99
Publisher Description
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 Candomblé. 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This collaboration between the late social justice activist and organizer Harding and her daughter Rachel Elizabeth (A Refuge in Thunder) is a spirited compilation of ecumenical history, folk wisdom, fiction, memoir, and poetry. Harding, who died in 2004, developed and crafted the bulk of this endearingwork that traces the unique history of African Americans in the southern U.S. and their mystic divine belief that transcends monotheism. 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.
