Womanist Theological Ethics

1 credits · Divinity School

This course is an interdisciplinary survey of the faithful Christian witness of African American women, and the significant contributions of Black womanist theological and ethical thought to the church. The four tenets of womanist inquiry as outlined in Alice Walker's definition of 'womanist'—radical subjectivity, traditional communalism, redemptive self-love, and critical engagement—will guide students in the work of uncovering the quadrilateral intersections of race, gender, class, and sexual oppressions in the everyday lives of Black women who comprise 90 percent of Black Church membership