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Deeper shades of purple: womanism in religion and society

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • Wisdom Rocked Steady [poem] (Nancy Lynne Westfield, page xv)
  • Introduction:Writing for Our Lives-Womanism as an Epistemological Revolution (Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, page 1)
  • PART I Radical Subjectivity
    • When Mama Was God [poem] (Raedorah Stewart-Dodd, page 17)
    • 1 Structured Academic Amnesia: As If This True Womanist Story Never Happened (Katie G. Cannon, page 19)
    • 2 From "Force-Ripe" to "Womanish/ist": Black Girlhood and African Diasporan Feminist Consciousness (Carol B. Duncan, page 29)
    • 3 Womanism Encounters Islam: A Muslim Scholar Considers the Efficacy of a Method Rooted in the Academy and the Church (Debra Mubashshir Majeed, page 38)
    • 4 Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: The Making of a Catholic Womanist Theologian (Diana L. Hayes, page 54)
  • PART II Traditional Communalism
    • Reflecting\Black [poem] (Dianne M. Stewart, page 80)
    • 5 Dancing Limbo: Black Passages through the Boundaries of Place, Race, Class, and Religion (Dianne M. Stewart, page 82)
    • 6 Hospitality, Haints, and Healing: A Southern African American Meaning of Religion (Rosemarie Freeney Harding with Rachel Elizabeth Harding, page 98)
    • 7 Lessons and Treasures in Our Mothers' Witness: Why I Write about Black Women's Activism (Rosetta E. Ross, page 115)
    • 8 "Mama Why . . . ?" A Womanist Epistemology of Hope (Nancy Lynne Westfield, page 128)
  • PART III Redemptive Self-Love
    • I've Been Mixed Like Cornbread [poem] (Raedorah Stewart-Dodd, page 143)
    • 9 Twenty Years a Womanist: An Affirming Challenge (Kelly Brown Douglas, page 145)
    • 10 A Womanist Journey (Karen Baker-Fletcher, page 158)
    • 11 Quilting Relations with Creation: Overcoming, Going Through, and Not Being Stuck (Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, page 176)
    • 12 The Sweet Fire of Honey:Womanist Visions of Osun as a Methodology of Emancipation (Shani Settles, page 191)
  • PART IV Critical Engagement
    • Nevertheless, in Stark Contradiction [poem] (Nancy Lynne Westfield, page 209)
    • 13 Womanist Humanism: A New Hermeneutic (Melanie L. Harris, page 211)
    • 14 A Thinking Margin: The Womanist Movement as Critical Cognitive Praxis (M. Shawn Copeland, page 226)
    • 15 The Womanist Dancing Mind: Speaking to the Expansiveness of Womanist Discourse (Emilie M. Townes, page 236)
  • PART V Appropriation and Reciprocity
    • they came because of the wailing [poem] (emilie townes, page 251)
    • 16 Womanist Visions,Womanist Spirit: An Asian Feminist's Response (Kwok Pui-lan, page 252)
    • 17 Lavender Celebrates Purple: A White Feminist Response (Letty M. Russell, page 260)
    • 18 Womanists and Mujeristas, Sisters in the Struggle: A Mujerista Response (Ada María Isasi-Díaz, page 265)
    • 19 Mining the Motherlode: A Latina Response (Daisy L. Machado, page 270)
    • 20 What's the Theological Equivalent of a "Mannish Boy"? Learning a Lesson from Womanist Scholarship-A Humanist and Black Theologian Response (Anthony B. Pinn, page 275)
    • 21 Lies above Suspicion: Being Human in Black Folk Tales-A Black Liberation Theologian Response (Dwight N. Hopkins, page 282)
    • 22 Is a Womanist a Black Feminist? Marking the Distinctions and Defying Them: A Black Feminist Response (Traci C.West, page 291)
  • Selected Womanist Bibliography (page 297)
  • About the Contributors (page 313)
  • Index (page 321)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AAR 41.3 (Fall 2007): 584-585 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40027420
Citable Link
Published: c2006
Publisher: New York University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780814728413 (ebook)
  • 9780814727522 (hardcover)
  • 9780814727539 (paper)
Subject
  • Religion
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