Research Catalog

Title

Deeper shades of purple : womanism in religion and society / edited by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Floyd-Thomas, Stacey M., 1969-

Description

xvii, 331 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Religion, race, and ethnicity

Subject

Womanist theology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index.

Contents

Writing for our lives : womanism as an epistemological revolution / Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas -- When mama was God (poem) / Raedorah Stewart-Dodd -- Structured academic amnesia : as if this true womanist story never happened / Katie G. Cannon -- From "force ripe" to "womanish/ist" : Black girlhood and African diasporan feminist consciousness / Carol B. Duncan -- Womanism encounters Islam : a Muslim scholar considers the efficacy of a method rooted in the academy and the church / Debra Mubashshir Majeed -- Standing in the shoes my mother made : the making of a Catholic womanist theologian / Diana L. Hayes -- Reflecting\Black (poem) / Dianne M. Stewart -- Dancing limbo : Black passages through the boundaries of place, race, class, and religion / Dianne M. Stewart -- Hospitality, haints, and healing : a Southern African American meaning of religion / Rosemarie Freeney Harding with Rachel Elizabeth Harding -- Lessons and treasures in our mothers' witness : why I write about Black women's activism / Rosetta E. Ross -- "Mama why?-- " : a womanist epistemology of hope / Nancy Lynne Westfield -- I've been mixed like cornbread (poem) / Raedorah Stewart-Dodd -- Twenty years a womanist : an affirming challenge / Kelly Brown Douglas -- A womanist journey / Karen Baker-Fletcher -- Quilting relations with creation : overcoming, going through, and not being stuck / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- The sweet fire of honey : womanist visions of Osun as a methodology of emancipation / Shani Settles -- Nevertheless, in stark contradiction (poem) / Nancy Lynne Westfield -- Womanist humanism : a new hermaneutic / Melanie L. Harris -- A thinking margin : the womanist movement as critical cognitive praxis / M. Shawn Copeland -- The womanist dancing mind : speaking to the expansiveness of womanist discourse / Emilie M. Townes -- They came because of the wailing (poem) / Emilie Townes -- Womanist visions, womanist spirit : an Asian feminist's response / Kwok Pui-Lan -- Lavender celebrates purple : a white feminist response / Letty M. Russell -- Womanists and mujeristas, sisters in the struggle : a mujerista response / Ada María Isasi-Díaz -- Mining the motherlode : a Latina response / Daisy L. Machado -- What's the theological equivalent of a "mannish boy"? : learning a lesson from womanist scholarship--a humanist and Black theologian response / Anthony B. Pinn -- Lies above suspicion : being human in Black folk tales--a Black liberation theologian response / Dwight N. Hopkins -- Is a womanist a Black feminist? : marking the distinctions and defying them : a Black feminist response / Traci C. West.

Call Number

JFE 06-14329

ISBN

• 0814727522 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0814727530 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780814727522
• 9780814727539

LCCN

• 2006008042
• 9780814727522
• 9780814727539

OCLC

64688636

Title

Deeper shades of purple : womanism in religion and society / edited by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas.

Imprint

New York : New York University Press, c2006.

Series

Religion, race, and ethnicity

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index.

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Added Author

Floyd-Thomas, Stacey M., 1969-

Other Standard Identifier

9780814727522

9780814727539

Research Call Number

JFE 06-14329