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In this collection, continental and diasporan African women
interrogate the concept "sacred text" and analyze ways oral and
written religious "texts" intersect with violence against
African-descended women and girls. While the sanctioned idea of a
sacred text is written literature, this project interrupts that
conception by drawing attention to speech and other embodied
practices that have sacral authority within the social imaginary.
As a volume focused on religion and violence, essays in this
collection analyze religions' authorization of violence against
women and girls; contest the legitimacy of some religious "texts";
and affirm other writing, especially memoir, as redemptive.
Unraveling and Reweaving Sacred Canon in Africana Womanhood arises
from three years of conversation of continental and diasporan
women, most recently continued in the July 6-10, 2014 Consultation
of African and African Disaporan Women in Religion and Theology and
privileges experiences and contexts of continental and diasporan
African women and girls. Interlocutors include African
traditionalists, Christian Protestants and Catholics, Muslims, and
women embodying hybrid practices of these and other traditions.
In a pluralistic world where the tendency is to dismiss or silence
ethnic and racial differences, Africentric Approaches to Christian
Ministry: Strengthening Urban Congregations in African American
Communities offers invaluable insight into the ordering of urban
congregational life, Christian ministry, and urban missiology from
a worldview perspective that values the centrality of African
people. Theological leaders and framers of African American
religious studies, such as the following persons provide
provocative insight for theological reflection and praxis: Gayraud
Wilmore (The Black Church); J. Deotis Roberts (Africentric
Christianity); Katie Geneva Cannon (Diaspora Ethics); and Cain Hope
Fielder (New Testament Studies). The opening and closing chapters
by co-editors Ronald Edward Peters and Marsha Snulligan Haney
provide a critical knowledge base that frames Africentric
Approaches to Christian Ministry. In light of the rapidly changing
nature of Christianity globally (non-Western and non-European),
this is a significant study on African American religious
consciousness and urban praxis.
After a chapter exploring black women's religious context and
presenting early examples of this work by women of the ante-bellum
and post-Reconstruction eras, Ross looks at seven civil rights
activists who continue this tradition. They are Ella Josephine
Baker, Septima Poinsette Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Victoria Way
DeLee, Clara Muhammad, Diane Nash, and Ruby Doris Smith Robinson.
In a fascinating narrative style that draws on biography, social
history, and original archival research, Ross shows how their moral
formation and work reflect both womanist consciousness and
practices of witness and testimony, both emergent from the black
religious context. Ross' major work is engrossing history and
moving ethical challenge. Examining black women's civil rights
activism as religiously impelled moral practices brings a new
insight to work on the movement and lifts up a paradigm for
engagement in the mountainous challenges of contemporary social
life.
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