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The Gathering, A Womanist Church

Author : Irie Lynne Session,Kamilah Hall Sharp,Jann Aldredge-Clanton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725274624

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The Gathering, A Womanist Church by Irie Lynne Session,Kamilah Hall Sharp,Jann Aldredge-Clanton Pdf

A womanist church has great power to transform church and society, primarily because womanist theology centers the experiences of Black women while working for the survival and wholeness of all people and all creation. Experiences of the triple oppression of racism, sexism, and classism give Black women an epistemological insight into recognizing injustice and creating solutions that benefit all. The Gathering is unique, the only church founded and identified as “womanist,” applying womanist theology to the full life and worship of a church. The Gathering, a womanist faith community in Dallas, Texas, welcomes all people to partner in pursuing racial equity, LGBTQ equality, and dismantling PMS (patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism), following Jesus in liberating the oppressed and lifting up the marginalized. The Gathering, A Womanist Church tells the story of the birth and ongoing development of a womanist faith community. This book includes personal narratives of people transformed in this community, womanist co-pastors’ sermons informed by their experiences and those of other Black women, and litanies for womanist worship.

The Gathering, A Womanist Church

Author : Irie Lynne Session,Kamilah Hall Sharp,Jann Aldredge-Clanton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725274631

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The Gathering, A Womanist Church by Irie Lynne Session,Kamilah Hall Sharp,Jann Aldredge-Clanton Pdf

A womanist church has great power to transform church and society, primarily because womanist theology centers the experiences of Black women while working for the survival and wholeness of all people and all creation. Experiences of the triple oppression of racism, sexism, and classism give Black women an epistemological insight into recognizing injustice and creating solutions that benefit all. The Gathering is unique, the only church founded and identified as ""womanist,"" applying womanist theology to the full life and worship of a church. The Gathering, a womanist faith community in Dallas, Texas, welcomes all people to partner in pursuing racial equity, LGBTQ equality, and dismantling PMS (patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism), following Jesus in liberating the oppressed and lifting up the marginalized. The Gathering, A Womanist Church tells the story of the birth and ongoing development of a womanist faith community. This book includes personal narratives of people transformed in this community, womanist co-pastors' sermons informed by their experiences and those of other Black women, and litanies for womanist worship.

Religion, Race, and COVID-19

Author : Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781479810192

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Religion, Race, and COVID-19 by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas Pdf

"This book analyzes how the particular dynamics and effects emerging from the COVID-19 crisis both impact and are perceived by its most vulnerable yet visionary populations, based on their pragmatic and prescient analysis of the American experiment of freedom with regards to race and religion. Without a doubt, this book addresses the various ways the COVID-19 crisis marks not merely a moment in time, but also a world-historical event that threatens to leave its imprint on lives and cultures for decades to come"--

Kaleidoscope

Author : Ineda Pearl Adesanya
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781640651654

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Kaleidoscope by Ineda Pearl Adesanya Pdf

A comprehensive resource for understanding the various components of spiritual direction. Early mystics of the Near East and northern Africa created the monastic traditions and were the first psychologists, exploring various practices to test the human capacity. In medieval times, spiritual direction was common in the Roman Catholic monastic traditions. It extended significantly into Protestant Christianity in the late twentieth century by predominantly white and affluent organizations. Spiritual direction has progressively become a global, multi-religious and interfaith practice. This book is a comprehensive and concise text from a spiritual director of color, offering inclusive resources and tools to spiritual directors of many faiths and for people of diverse cultures and traditions. Core skills such a deep listening, hospitality, and discernment are presented with cutting-edge lessons on internal liberation, systemic trauma, and imaginative discovery. Spiritual direction is taught by more than 100 educational institutions and spirituality centers in the US alone, but typical curriculum generally does not reflect current cultural reality and growing diversity. This is a textbook for anyone who studies spiritual direction as both preparation for and deepening of their calling.

Beyond Eden

Author : Courtney Pace
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820368047

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Beyond Eden by Courtney Pace Pdf

A major figure in African American social justice movements and Black theological praxis and theory, Rev. Dr. Prathia Laura Ann Hall (1940–2002) had not been the subject of a book-length critical study until Courtney Pace’s Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019. Now with the publication of Beyond Eden: The Collected Sermons and Essays of Prathia Hall, Pace provides a volume of seminal importance to the fields of womanist theology and ethics, Black church history, and African American history. Beyond Eden explores Hall’s preaching and research, curating a collection of her work to expand scholarship on her influence on American religion and Black churches. Hall pioneered womanist preaching, embodying the necessary interconnections among theology, social science, history, and practical ministry. She was a master organizer, not only leading her congregation but facilitating collaborations among national, regional, and local organizations to serve Black churches and Black communities. The sermons and essays in this volume showcase Hall’s womanist preaching brilliance, the seamless connection between church and the academy in her work, and her understanding of the gospel as Freedom Faith. A trailblazer in the womanist movement of the 1980s and 1990s, Hall merged Christian ethics with Black feminist thought during decades of civil rights activism and preaching. Although she had very few publications due to the demands of her multifaceted vocation, health limitations, and familial responsibilities, her extensive work has been transcribed from handwritten notes and audio recordings by editor Courtney Pace.

Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics

Author : Amy Plantinga Pauw,Serene Jones
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664224377

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Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics by Amy Plantinga Pauw,Serene Jones Pdf

This book is a collection of essays by thirteen feminist and womanist authors who locate themselves within the Reformed tradition. Topics explored include: the Trinity, creation, election, atonement, the church, fear, resistance, and vocation. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students interested in feminist theology. The Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today. This series examines theological and ethical issues that confront church and society in our own particular time and place.

Bitter the Chastening Rod

Author : Mitzi J. Smith,Angela N. Parker,Ericka S. Dunbar Hill
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978712010

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Bitter the Chastening Rod by Mitzi J. Smith,Angela N. Parker,Ericka S. Dunbar Hill Pdf

In this book, Africana biblical scholars argue that race, class, gender, and sexuality still matter for doing biblical interpretation/translation, centering the socio-political and cultural contexts of Africana peoples negotiating life, death, and hope in the age of #BLM, #SayHerName, #MeToo, and a global pandemic.

The Womanist Preacher

Author : Kimberly P. Johnson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498542067

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The Womanist Preacher by Kimberly P. Johnson Pdf

The Womanist Preacher: Proclaiming Womanist Rhetoric from the Pulpit performs a close textual analysis of five womanist sermons to answer the question: how does womanist preaching attempt to transform/adapt the tenets of womanist thought to make it rhetorically viable in the church? And what is gained and lost in this? The sermons come from five women who are considered exemplars of womanist preaching: Elaine M. Flake, Gina M. Stewart, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Melva L. Sampson, and Claudette A. Copeland. This book takes the first step in womanist scholarship to dissect what is rhetorically going on in womanist preaching, to categorize womanist sermons under the four tenets of womanist preaching, and to then create four rhetorical models that reflect the rhetorical attributes of the four different categories or phrased tenets that Stacey Floyd-Thomas uses to represent Alice Walker’s “womanist” definition.

Our Lives Matter

Author : Pamela R. Lightsey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498206648

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Our Lives Matter by Pamela R. Lightsey Pdf

Our Lives Matter uses the tenor of the 2014 national protests that emerged as a response to excessive police force against Black people to frame the book as following the discursive tradition of liberation theologies broadly speaking and womanist theology specifically. Using a womanist methodological approach, Pamela R. Lightsey helps readers explore the impact of oppression against Black LBTQ women while introducing them to the emergent intellectual movement known as queer theology. The author privileges their narratives and experiences as she reviews several doctrines and dogma of the Christian church. Theological reflection on contemporary debates such as same-sex marriage and ordination rights make this book a valuable resource to clergy, students of theology, LGBTQ persons and allies. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }

Lady Midrash

Author : Elisabeth Mehl Greene
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781498284196

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Lady Midrash by Elisabeth Mehl Greene Pdf

What if the women of the Bible told their own stories? Lady Midrash: Poems Reclaiming the Voices of Biblical Women brings to life alternative interpretations and forgotten female perspectives from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. Following in the footsteps of Jewish midrash, a storytelling tradition that explores the gaps in scripture, these poems re-examine the experiences of Biblical women. Sidelined heroines are celebrated. Supposed villainesses get to speak for themselves. Lady Midrash reverses convention, probes familiar narratives, attends to small moments, highlights peripheral and silent characters, and names the nameless. The imagination of midrash provides the reader with a creative space to rethink assumptions and reconsider the accounts of women in the Jewish and Christian traditions.

Freedom Faith

Author : Courtney Pace
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820355054

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Freedom Faith by Courtney Pace Pdf

Freedom Faith is the first full-length critical study of Rev. Dr. Prathia Laura Ann Hall (1940–2002), an undersung leader in both the civil rights movement and African American theology. Freedom faith was the central concept of Hall’s theology: the belief that God created humans to be free and assists and equips those who work for freedom. Hall rooted her work simultaneously in social justice, Christian practice, and womanist thought. Courtney Pace examines Hall’s life and philosophy, particularly through the lens of her civil rights activism, her teaching career, and her ministry as a womanist preacher. Moving along the trajectory of Hall’s life and civic service, Freedom Faith focuses on her intellectual and theological development and her radiating influence on such figures as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Marian Wright Edelman, and the early generations of womanist scholars. Hall was one of the first women ordained in the American Baptist Churches, USA, was the pastor of Mt. Sharon Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and in later life joined the faculty at the Boston University School of Theology as the Martin Luther King Chair in Social Ethics. In activism and ministry, Hall was a pioneer, fusing womanist thought with Christian ethics and visions of social justice.

The Julian Way

Author : Justin Hancock
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532611599

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This book invites its readers to an exploration of some of the greatest theologians in Christian history through the lens of disability theology in order to understand how the Christian Church is intended to deal with the ever-evolving concept and reality that is the disabled human experience. This books brings together an account of the history of disability civil rights, beginning in the early twentieth century and evolving to the present day. It takes a look at some of the foremost theologians in Christian history as seen through the lens of disability theology, in order to help the reader gain an understanding of a diverse, unique, and ever-evolving culture. According to the CDC, as of 2015 approximately 53 million Americans live with some form of disability. This book attempts to offer a new way forward for the church to engage with this incredibly diverse, unique, and wonderful culture by offering first a brief introduction to the history of disability civil rights to allow the reader to understand and experience how many of the trends and forces that shape civil rights on a broad national level were present from the very beginning within the disabled community and the movement towards the ADA. Then, by exploring some of the greatest theologians in the history of the church, this book hopes to illuminate the ways in which the church has served those with disabilities well, and in many cases not so well, throughout its history. Finally, the book will close with a hopeful, optimistic, and yet practical way forward rooted in the concepts of hospitality, community, and mutuality that we call the Julian Way.

Feminist and Womanist Pastoral Theology

Author : Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore,Brita L. Gill-Austern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015048741592

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Feminist and Womanist Pastoral Theology by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore,Brita L. Gill-Austern Pdf

In the last decade, the focus of pastoral theology has shifted dramatically from care defined as counseling to care understood within a wider social, political, and religious context. Feminist and womanist theory as well as feminist and womanist faith convictions have played a key role in this development. According to the authors, feminists and womanists in pastoral theology have begun to reconstruct the definitions, parameters, and commitments of pastoral care and counseling. These changes have critical implications for care within congregations and for the understanding of theology in seminaries and divinity schools. Yet these developments in the theory and practice of pastoral theology and their broader ramifications have not been carefully analyzed or even acknowledged by pastoral theologian, minister, and religion scholar alike. This is due to a failure to articulate clear understandings of the field, the gap between congregational ministry and higher education in religion, and conflicts in theological education in general over the place of practice and theory, experience, spirituality, and practical theology. To redress these problems, this collection of essays has a threefold aim. First, the book identifies the many changes occurring in definitions of pastoral theology, care, and counseling. Second, the volume defines and develops new methods and approaches. Third, the authors attend to the implications of these changes for congregational care and theological education. Roughly speaking, the order of the chapters in this volume follows this threefold agenda, moving from an exploration of the changes in pastoral theology to its reconstruction to some of the implications of recent innovations

Building Bridges

Author : Kendra Weddle,Jann Aldredge-Clanton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532631887

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Building Bridges by Kendra Weddle,Jann Aldredge-Clanton Pdf

Letha Dawson Scanzoni changed the landscape of American evangelicalism through her groundbreaking work on the gospel-based intersection of gender and LGBTQ justice. She coauthored two of the first books that support women's equality and LGBTQ rights with the Bible: All We're Meant to Be and Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? In all her work Scanzoni applies the liberating message of Jesus to women and to people who have been marginalized by church and society because of sexual orientation. Building Bridges combines an exploration of the life and work of Letha Dawson Scanzoni with stories of people she continues to empower through her writing and the Evangelical & Ecumenical Women's Caucus - Christian Feminism Today, an organization she cofounded. This book illustrates her growing influence as she continues her prophetic collaboration with new generations. In addition, it provides resources for churches as they build bridges for their ministries of liberation, justice, and peace.

If it Wasn't for the Women--

Author : Cheryl Gilkes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015051652322

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If it Wasn't for the Women-- by Cheryl Gilkes Pdf

These collected essays examine the roles of women in their churches and communities, the implication of those roles for African American culture, and the tensions and stereotypes that shape societal responses to these roles. Gilkes examines the ways black women and their experience shape the culture and consciousness of the black religious experience, and reflects on some of the crises and conflicts that attend this experience.