Outcasts in the Deserts of Hopelessness
It was not until Delores Williams’ Sisters in the Wilderness that Black women’s experiences and modes of survival were given theological voice as a companion and/or corrective to the dominant mode of liberation found in Black Theology. This womanist response helped provide a thicker description of B...
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| description | It was not until Delores Williams’ Sisters in the Wilderness that Black women’s experiences and modes of survival were given theological voice as a companion and/or corrective to the dominant mode of liberation found in Black Theology. This womanist response helped provide a thicker description of Black religious thought and modes of being—female and male. I explore what this expanded discourse has been used in womanist social ethics and ongoing battle that Black folk wage for our humanity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a3a56a3e7e4c41adb271929a1d6d794f2022-12-22T01:37:45ZengColumbia University LibrariesBlack Theology Papers Project2641-27992019-11-014110.7916/btpp.v4i1.3868Outcasts in the Deserts of HopelessnessEmilie M. TownesIt was not until Delores Williams’ Sisters in the Wilderness that Black women’s experiences and modes of survival were given theological voice as a companion and/or corrective to the dominant mode of liberation found in Black Theology. This womanist response helped provide a thicker description of Black religious thought and modes of being—female and male. I explore what this expanded discourse has been used in womanist social ethics and ongoing battle that Black folk wage for our humanity.https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/btpp/article/view/3868 |
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