Living the Intersection: Womanism and Afrocentrism in Theology

by Cheryl J. Sanders

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800628529
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	03/01/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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