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Living the Intersection

Womanism and Afrocentrism in Theology
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Womanism and Afrocentrism are the two most influential currents in contemporary African American culture. They both heighten black cultural self-awareness, even as they deepen knowledge of its historical sources. As womanism mines the ways and wisdom of African American women for Christian theology, so Afrocentricity excavates an African past to liberate the oppressed from Eurocentric worldviews. Yet are the two compatible? What does the mostly male Afrocentric scholarship contribute to the survival, wholeness, and liberation of black women? In this volume social ethicist Cheryl Sanders and other leading womanist thinkers take the measure of the Afrocentric idea and explore the intricate relationship between Afrocentric and womanist perspectives in their lives and commitments. Their strong, frank assessments form a creative engagement of these two momentous streams.
Cheryl J. Sanders is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Howard University School of Divinity, Associate Pastor at Third St. Church of God, Washington, D.C., and editor of Living the Intersection: Womanism and Afrocentrism in Theology (Fortress Press, 1994).
Contributors Introduction Kelly Brown Douglas and Cheryl J. Sanders PART ONE: EXPERIENCE We Have a Beautiful Mother: Womanist Musings on the Afrocentric Idea Cheryl Townsend Gilkes Afrocentrism and Male-Female Relations in Church and Society Delores S. Williams A Womanist Response to the Afrocentric Idea: Jarena Lee, Womanist Preacher Lorine L. Cummings To Reflect the Image of God: A Womanist Perspective on Right Relationship Kelly Brown Douglas PART TWO: INTERPRETATION Slavery as a Sacred Text: Witnessing in Dessa Rose Deborah E. McDowell Living in the Intersection of Womanism and Afrocentrism: Black Women Writers Youtha C. Hardman-Cromwell Black Women in Biblical Perspective: Resistance, Affirmation, and Empowerment Cheryl J. Sanders PART THREE: LEARNING Teaching Womanist Theology Kelly Brown Douglas Afrocentric and Womanist Approaches to Theological Education Cheryl J. Sanders Notes Index
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