Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vi
Mother to Son Langston Hughes ix
Introduction: A Womanist Spiritual Journey xi
1 To Be Black, Catholic, and Female 1
2 Slam in the Spirit: Black Americans and the Holy Spirit 11
3 Deep River: The Christian Vocation of the Laity 30
4 Trouble Don't Last Always: Soul Prayers 38
5 Were You There? Stations of the Cross 58
6 Who Do You, God, Say That We Are? 74
7 We Too Are America: Black Women's Burden of Race and Class 80
8 Woman Offered No. 5 94
9 Faith of Our Mothers: Catholic Womanist God-Talk 98
10 Insistent Inclusion: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender 123
Further Reading on Womanist Spirituality 139
