Sisters in the Wilderness The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk

Name: Sisters in the Wilderness The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk
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ISBN: 9781570750267

ISBN-10: 1570750262

ISBN-13: 9781570750267

Edition: 1995

Authors: Delores S. Williams

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This landmark work first published 20 years ago helped establish the field of African-American womanist theology and is widely regarded as a classic text. Drawing on the biblical figure of Hagar mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God Williams finds a proptype for the struggle of African-American women. African slave, homeless exile, surrogate mother, Hagar's story provides an image of survival and defiance appropriate to black women today. Exploring the themes implicit in Hagar's story poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounter with God Williams traces parallels in the history of African-American women from slavery…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 7/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 287
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



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



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