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Black Women and Breast Cancer - A Cultural Theology (Hardcover)
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Black Women and Breast Cancer - A Cultural Theology (Hardcover)
Series: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
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Christian theology at its core is a story about someone being in
trouble. In response to this trouble, the triune God intervenes.
God identifies with those in trouble, walking with them through the
experience. Yet, the God of Christian theology goes a step further.
God prevails over trouble. God is an overcomer. Black women with
breast cancer identify with this God. They also see themselves in
this theological narrative. They see themselves in the midst of
troubles, troubles like racism, poverty and environmental exposures
that create the disease affecting their bodies. They see the
troubles of breast cancer, their biological disposition towards
more aggressive cancers, later stage diagnoses, poorer prognoses,
diminished quality of care and worse outcomes. Black women also
palpably feel the troubles breast cancer brings like fear, physical
disfigurement, social isolation, being stereotyped for treatment
decisions, abandonment and even death. Black women feel the myriad
troubles breast cancer brings. But, Black women also know God in
their troubles. They know an active God who identifies with and
prioritizes their needs. They know this God, through scripture and
experience, as God who puts them front and center. And because they
know God as an overcomer and creative force, they know themselves
as overcomers. For with God, their troubles do not last always.
Black women with breast cancer construct a cultural theology of
breast cancer out of knowing God. Borne out of experiences of the
Black Church, womanist theology and their intersectional identities
of race, class and gender, this theological investigation, informed
by anthropology, examines how Black women construct an ontology of
who God is and how God operates and gain a God consciousness that
shapes their response to the disease. Using pain, faith and
testimony as tools to struggle against breast cancer Black
survivors' theology transforms them from victims of breast cancer
to change agents. Out of their lives as survivors comes a theology
of complex hope- one cognizant of Black women's breast cancer
disparities, yet oriented towards Black women's achievement of
health in the present and the future- a sufficient hope to sustain
Black women through it all.
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