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Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: A Womanist Theology First Edition
Author(s): Diana L. Hayes (Author)
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2010
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780800697570
- ISBN-13: 080069757X
Book Description
Black women in America have carved out a distinctive and instructive faith stance that is influential well beyond the historic black church. Diana L. Hayes, a leading commentator and forger of womanist thought, especially in the black Catholic setting, here offers strong brew for what ails the church, the Christian tradition, and the world.Hayes specifically shows how womanist commitments in the Christian tradition provide a specific critical lens for seeing the strengths and weaknesses of a Christianity that has often flourished at the expense of or neglect of African Americans. As sometime strangers and sojourners in their own church, black women have a unique take on the church’s stance on race, class, and gender issues. Yet their unquestioned devotion lends a hope and optimism often missing from critical thought and, as Hayes shows in this powerful volume, invites the church itself to a new conversion and role. Her book unfolds in four parts:Introduction: Standing in the Shoes My Mother MadePart 1: Faith and WorshipPart 2: Ministry and Social JusticePart 3: The Public Face of FaithPart 4: A Womanist Faith Challenge
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About the Author
Diana L. Hayes is professor emerita of systematic theology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She earned the JD degree from George Washington National Law Center, her STB and STL degrees from the Catholic University of America, and a PhD in religious studies from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Among her many books are And Still We Rise: An Introduction to Black Liberation Theology (1996) and Were You There? Stations of the Cross (2000).
