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Womanist theology is a methodological approach to theology which centers the experience and perspectives of Black women, particularly African-American women. The first generation of womanist theologians and ethicists began writing in the mid to late 1980s, and the field has since expanded significantly.
Delores Seneva Williams (November 17, 1934 – November 17, 2022) [7] was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor notable for her formative role in the development of womanist theology and best known for her book Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk.
In her introduction to The Womanist Reader, Layli Phillips contends that despite womanism's characterization, its main concern is not the Black woman per se but rather the Black woman is the point of origin for womanism. [4] The basic tenets of womanism includes a strong, self-authored spirit of activism that is especially evident in literature ...
Hagar's Daughters: Womanist Ways of Being in the World. New York: Paulist Press, 1995. Trouble Don't Last Always: Soul Prayers. Liturgical Press, 1995. And Still We Rise: An Introduction to Black Liberation Theology. New York: Paulist Press, 1996. Taking Down Our Harps: Black Catholics in the United States. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1998.
Her teaching and research focuses on the African-American religious experience, womanist theology, and the religions of the African diaspora. Mitchem was the first woman to graduate from Sacred Heart Seminary in her native Detroit and has served as the chair of the Department of Religious Studies and the director of the African American Studies ...
Walker defined "Womanist" in a four-part definition, [4] that set the black female experience in contradistinction to both white women and black men. Using this frame, Womanist theology and ethics was born through the work of Cannon, Williams, and Grant. Floyd-Thomas' work continues this Womanist scholarship started in theology and ethics.
Marcia Y. Riggs is an American author, the J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics, and the Director of ThM Program at Columbia Theological Seminary, a womanist theologian, and a recognized authority on the black woman's club movement of the nineteenth century.
In her first book, An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation, Junior compares feminist and womanist interpretations of the Bible and argues that "womanist biblical interpretation [was] a natural development of African American women engaging in activism instead of simply [as] a response to second-wave feminism". [11]