Unraveling and Reweaving Sacred Canon in Africana Womanhood

Name: Unraveling and Reweaving Sacred Canon in Africana Womanhood
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Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts

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In this collection, continental and diasporan African women interrogate the concept “sacred text” and analyze ways oral and written religious “texts” intersect with violence against African-descended women and girls. While the sanctioned idea of a sacred text is written literature, this project interrupts that conception by drawing attention to speech and other embodied practices that have sacral authority within the social imaginary. As a volume focused on religion and violence, essays in this collection analyze religions’ authorization of violence against women and girls; contest the legitimacy of some religious “texts”; and affirm other writing, especially memoir, as redemptive. Unraveling and Reweaving Sacred Canon in Africana Womanhood arises from three years of conversation of continental and diasporan women, most recently continued in the July 6-10, 2014 Consultation of African and African Disaporan Women in Religion and Theology and privileges experiences and contexts of continental and diasporan African women and girls. Interlocutors include African traditionalists, Christian Protestants and Catholics, Muslims, and women embodying hybrid practices of these and other traditions.

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Rosetta E. Ross is professor of religion at Spelman College. Rose Mary Amenga-Etego is senior lecturer in religious studies at the Department for the Study of Religions, University of Ghana, Legon.

Release date NZ

December 15th, 2015

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Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Contributions by Elizabeth Pulane Motswapong
Contributions by Helen Adekunbi Labeodan
Contributions by Liz S. Alexander
Contributions by Melanie C. Jones
Contributions by NaShieka D. Knight
Contributions by Rabiatu Ammah
Contributions by Rose Mary Amenga-Etego
Contributions by Valerie Bridgeman
Edited by Rose Mary Amenga-Etego
Edited by Rosetta E. Ross

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232

Series

Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts

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160x234x24

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9781498518215

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23075676

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