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Article: Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk.(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
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- July 3, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By Delores S. Williams. Orbis, 287 pp., $19.95.
THE TERM "womanist," first coined by Alice Walker from "womanish" to refer to "a black feminist or feminist of color," carries a variety of nuances drawn from black history and culture. These include being courageous, audacious, grown-up, serious, woman-loving, nonseparatist and committed to human survival. Since its emergence in the last decade or so, womanist theology has honored the distinctiveness of black women's experience and called attention to the ways in which this experience has been ignored or rendered invisible in other theologies.
Womanist theology has highlighted not only widely known stories ...