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This landmark work in emerging African American "womanist" thought uses the image of Hagar--mother of Ishmael, cast into the wilderness by Abraham and Sarah but protected by God--as a prototype for African American women. Williams sees in the story of Hagar--an African woman, surrogate mother,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Delores S Williams: the author in the preface describes her testimony and reliance on faith
- Hagar a woman of the bible as well as the Koran: this study focuses on episodes gleaned from Genesis 16.1-16 and Genesis 21. 9-21
- African and African American women: their role as a mother from Africa to the Americas and how the tensions began
- African American slave women: their transitional roles as a substitute and as a wife/nuturer/mother to their slave family whether it was forced or servile from continuing discrimination after slavery
- Black Woman as Community Sister: the transforming wilderness experience
- Hebrew slaves: codified status
- Womanist: feminist, liberation theology and their dialogues cross culturally
First Sentence edit
WHERE WOULD I BEGIN in order to construct Christian theology (or god-talk) from the point of view of African-American woman?
Table of Contents edit
Preface
Introduction
Part I
SISTERS IN THE WILDERNESS
Hagar's Story: A Route to Black Women's Issues
Tensions in Motherhood: From Slavery to Freedom
Social-Role Surrogacy: Naming Black Women's Oppression
Color Struck: A State of Mind
Sisters in the Wilderness and Community Meanings
Part II
Womanist God-Talk
Womanist God-Talk and Black Liberation Theology
Womanist-Feminist Dialogue: Differences and Commonalities
Womanist Reflections on "The Black Church," the African-American Denominational Churches and the Universal Hagar's Spiritual Church
Afterword
Notes
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Delores S. Williams (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 305
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Special Groups › African-American Studies
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Reference › Theology
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Christian Living › Women's Issues
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Theology › Feminist
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Other Practices › African American
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies › Feminist Theory
- Books › Reference
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