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Womanism and Afrocentrism are the two most influential currents in contemporary African American culture. Yet are the two compatible? Social ethicist Cheryl Sanders marshals some leading womanist thinkers to take the measure of the Afrocentric idea and to explore the intricate relationship... read more
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As a sociologist who specializes in African American life and culture, I pay particular attention to our religious experience, especially women's roles.
Table of Contents edit
Part One Experience:
1. We Have a Beautiful Mother:
Womanist Musings on the Afrocentric Idea
2. Afrocentrism and Male-Female Relations
in Church and Society
3. A Womanist Response to the Afrocentric Idea:
Jarena Lee, Womanist Preacher
4. To Reflect the Image of God:
A Womanist Perspective on Right Relationship
Pat Two Interpretation
5. Slavery as a Sacred Text: Witnessing in Dessa Rose
6. Living in the Intersection of Womanism
and Afrocentrism: Black Women Writers
7. Black Women in Biblical Perspective:
Resistance, Affirmation, and Empowerment
Part Three Learning
8. Teaching Womanist Theology
9. Afrocentric and Womanist Approaches to Theological Education
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 230.082
Subjects edit
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Religious Studies › Theology › Feminist
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Reference › Theology
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Religious Studies › Theology › Black Theology
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Theology › Feminist
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › African-American Studies
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Other Practices › African American
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies › Feminist Theory
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Christian Living
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
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