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.
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword: Daughter’s Précis by Rachel E. Harding
- 1. (the light)
- I • Ground
- 2. Rye’s Rites (poem)
- 3. Grandma Rye
- 4. There Was a Tree in Starkville . . .
- 5. Daddy’s Mark
- 6. Joe Daniels: Getting Unruly
- 7. The Side of the Road
- 8. Papa’s Girl
- II • North
- 9. Snow and Spring in Woodlawn
- 10. Shirley Darden
- 11. Brother Bud’s Death
- 12. Death, Dreams, and Secrecy: Things We Carried
- 13. Seasons
- 14. Elegant Cousins and Original Beauty
- 15. Warmth
- 16. Altgeld Gardens
- 17. Hot Rolls (short fiction)
- 18. Looking for Work
- 19. The Nursing Test
- 20. In Loco Parentis (short fiction)
- 21. Mama Freeney and the Haints
- 22. Height
- III • South
- 23. Hospitality, Haints, and Healing: African American Indigenous Religion and Activism
- 24. Mennonite House in Atlanta
- 25. The Next-Door Neighbor
- 26. Traveling for the Movement
- 27. Koinonia Farm: Cultivating Conviction
- 28. A Radical Compassion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Clarence Jordan, and Marion King-Jackson
- 29. A Song in the Time of Dying: A Memory of Bernice Johnson Reagon
- 30. The Blood House (a story outline)
- 31. Spirit and Struggle: The Mysticism of the Movement
- IV • The Dharamsala Notebook
- 32. Sunrise after Delhi (poem)
- 33. The Dharamsala Notebook I
- 34. The Dharamsala Notebook II
- V • Bunting
- 35. The Bunting
- 36. The Workshops and Retreats: Ritual, Remembering, and Medicine
- VI • The Pachamama Circle
- 37. Pachamama Circle I: Rachel’s Dream
- 38. Pachamama Circle II: Sue Bailey Thurman and the Harriets
- 39. Pachamama Circle III: A Choreography of Mothering
- 40. Mama and the Gods
- AfterWords
- 41. Fugida: Poem for Oyá
- 42. Class Visits: Love, White Southerners, and Black Exceptionalism
- 43. A Little Wind
- 44. (the Call)
- Appendix: Rosemarie’s Genealogies
- Acknowledgments
- Index
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