Abstract
Many said it would not be here. Still. Regardless. And after almost thirty years, womanist theology survives and thrives through the pens, teaching, writing, art, and activism of several waves of womanist religious thought. Birthed out of the minds and critical thinking of such scholars as Katie G. Cannon, Delores S. Williams, Jacquelyn Grant, and Renita J. Weems,1 womanist theology began with the act of these women boldly naming themselves “womanists,” appropriating a term coined by literary writer Alice Walker. Calling sexism a necessary category of contemplation for black Christian traditional churches and demanding black feminist race-class-gender analysis be used in black theological methodology, these women shaped womanist theology and ethics to center the voices and experiences of women of African descent as primary sources for theological reflection.KeywordsBlack WomanAfrican DescentBlack ChurchRoundtable DiscussionLiberation TheologyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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