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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.
Grant and Cone both influenced scholar Delores S. Williams, who produced a commonly-referenced definition of womanist theology: Womanist theology is a prophetic voice concerned about the well-being of the entire African American community, male and female, adults and children. Womanist theology attempts to help black women see, affirm, and have ...
Katie Geneva Cannon (January 3, 1950 – August 8, 2018) was an American Christian theologian and ethicist associated with womanist theology and black theology. [3] [4] In 1974 she became the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA). [5] [6]
Womanism, biblical scholarship, ethics and theology Renita J. Weems (born 1954) is an American Protestant biblical scholar, theologian, author and ordained minister. She is the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in Old Testament studies in the United States.
On the other hand, there is also an increase in the criticism of heterosexism within womanist scholarship. Christian womanist theologian Pamela R. Lightsey, in her book Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology (2015), writes, "To many people, we are still perverts. To many, the black pervert is the most dangerous threat to the American ideal.
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 ...
Kelly Brown Douglas [2] (born 1952) is an African-American Episcopal priest, womanist theologian, and interim president of Episcopal Divinity School.She was previously the inaugural Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary.