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Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman´s Journey with Depression and Faith
Monica A. Coleman
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Description for Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman´s Journey with Depression and Faith
Hardback. In this powerful book, Monica A. Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death. Coleman offers a rare account of how the modulated highs of bipolar II can lead to professional success, while hiding a depression that even her doctors rarely believed. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: BM; HRCV; MJN; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 686.
Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years. The rope was the violent instrument, but it- was mental anguish that killed him. Now, in gripping fashion, Coleman examines the ways that the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty, and alcoholism mask a family history of mental illness. Those same forces accompanied her into the black religious traditions and Christian ministry. All the while, she wrestled with her own bipolar disorder. Bipolar Faith is both a spiritual ... Read more
Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years. The rope was the violent instrument, but it- was mental anguish that killed him. Now, in gripping fashion, Coleman examines the ways that the legacies of slavery, war, sharecropping, poverty, and alcoholism mask a family history of mental illness. Those same forces accompanied her into the black religious traditions and Christian ministry. All the while, she wrestled with her own bipolar disorder. Bipolar Faith is both a spiritual ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fortress Press,U.S.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
686g
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781506408590
SKU
V9781506408590
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About Monica A. Coleman
Monica A. Coleman teaches theology and African American religions at Claremont School of Theology, where she also codirects the Centre for Process Studies. Her writings cover womanist theology, sexual abuse, and the African American experience. She is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church a sought after speaker and preacher.
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