Self, Culture, and Others in Womanist Practical Theology

by P. Sheppard

Overview

To illustrate the complexities of black women's experiences of self-identification and racial embodiment, Phillis Isabella Sheppard provides an account that engages both psychoanalytic theory and the role of religion and cultural objects in self-understanding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230102880
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/22/2011
Series:	Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Phillis Isabella Sheppard is Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA.

Table of Contents

Black As You See Me * PART I: LIVING BLACKNESS: WOMANIST PERSPECTIVES ON BLACK WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE * Living Blackness: Black Women's Experience of Religion * The Current Shape of Womanist Practical Theology * Suffering and Pain, Longing and Love: Womanist Theological Perspectives on Psychic Experience * PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BLACK EXPERIENCE: CRITIQUE AND APPROPRIATION * Black Psychoanalysis and Black Feminist Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Resources Toward a Critical Appropriation of Psychoanalysis * PART III: WOMANIST PRACTICAL THEOLOGY * Black Women and Self Psychology: Toward a Usable Dialogue * PART III: WOMANIST PRACTICAL THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION * Black Embodiment and Religious Experience after Trauma: Womanist Self Psychological Perspective on the Mourning of Cultural Selfobjects * A Dark Body of Goodness Created in the Image of God:  Navigating Sexuality, Race, and Gender Alone and Together * Black and Beautiful: Reading the Song of Songs * Final Thoughts: Womanist Practices