Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Williams, Delores S. Sisters in the wilderness. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, ©1993 (OCoLC)624119672 |
---|---|
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Delores S Williams |
ISBN: | 088344772X 9780883447727 9781570750267 1570750262 |
OCLC Number: | 27936424 |
Description: | xvi, 287 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- pt. 1 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 -- pt. 2 Womanist God-talk -- Womanist God-galk 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. |
Responsibility: | Delores S. Williams. |
Abstract:
"In this landmark work of emerging African American womanist theology, Delores Williams finds in the biblical figure of Hagar - mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God - a prototype 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."--BOOK JACKET. "Exploring all the themes inherent in Hagar's story - poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounters with God - Sisters in the Wilderness traces parallels in the history of African-American women from slavery to the present. A particular theology - a womanist theology - emerges from this shared experience; specifically, from the interplay of oppressions on account of race, sex, and class."--BOOK JACKET. "In Part I, Williams shows how reading Hagar's story exemplifies the issues and problems black women face. The "forced motherhood," "single motherhood" and "surrogate motherhood" Hagar experienced have been part of black women's lives. Williams also explores the dismal reality of contemporary "racial narcissistic ... consciousness" which finds its parallel in Hagar's travail as foreign servant and outcast. Finally, there is the religious resonance of Hagar's sojourns in the wilderness and her encounters with God. These themes Williams finds echoed in the cultural and literary traditions of African-American women."--BOOK JACKET. "Part II considers the theological implications of the womanist understanding of Hagar's history. Williams explores the relationship between womanist and black liberation theology, and womanist theology and the black church. Through the combination of social history, political theology, and literary criticism, Williams demonstrates how approaching theology consciously informed by the awareness of the identity of black women results in a rich and vibrant knowledge of the sacred. Sisters in the Wilderness provides a reconstruction of "God-talk" that adds a new dimension of meaning to the struggle for faith in God, Who "makes a way out of no way.""--Jacket
Reviews
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.


Tags
Add tags for "Sisters in the wilderness : the challenge of womanist God-talk".
All user tags (7)
View most popular tags as: tag list
| tag cloud
View most popular tags as:
tag list
| tag cloud
- african american women (by 1 person)
- black theology (by 1 person)
- charlestonsyllabus (by 1 person)
- christianity (by 1 person)
- feminism (by 1 person)
- feminist theology (by 1 person)
- womanist theology (by 1 person)
- 1 items are tagged withafrican american women
- 1 items are tagged withblack theology
- 1 items are tagged withcharlestonsyllabus
- 1 items are tagged withchristianity
- 1 items are tagged withfeminism
- 1 items are tagged withfeminist theology
- 1 items are tagged withwomanist theology
Similar Items
Related Subjects:(11)
- Womanist theology.
- Feminist theology.
- Black theology.
- African American women -- Religious life.
- Théologie womaniste.
- Théologie féministe.
- Théologie noire.
- Noires américaines -- Vie religieuse.
- Feministische theologie.
- théologie noire -- vie consacrée.
- théologie féministe -- théologie noire.
User lists with this item (14)
- Books I Want to Read(5 items)
by emilyesears updated 2020-12-29
- womanist(9 items)
by leadinglady1 updated 2018-03-05
- Things to Check Out(1 items)
by glgomillion0606 updated 2016-11-06
- Fall 2015(10 items)
by helenamc updated 2015-08-20
- #CharlestonSyllabus(310 items)
by ebrandow updated 2015-08-13