{"id":3073,"date":"2009-03-03T18:56:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T23:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2009-03-03T18:56:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T23:56:55","slug":"what-weve-all-been-missing-womanist-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-weve-all-been-missing-womanist-theology\/","title":{"rendered":"What we've all been missing: Womanist Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anglican Journal<\/a>, ever on the bleeding edge, has illumination on Womanist Theology.<\/p>\n

\u2018Womanist\u2019 theologians examine faith from black female prism<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I take that back: how do you see through a black prism, even if it is female? But wait, there’s more:<\/p>\n

Womanist theologians – female African American theologians who view the Christian faith from the prism of the experience of black women – are celebrating two decades of work of a movement that has gained increasing prominence in U.S. religious and academic circles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I must live a sheltered life, because up until now I had never heard of Womanist Theology. It seems that “womanist” was coined by Alice Walker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What then is a womanist? Her origins are in the black folk expression “You acting womanish,” meaning, according to Walker, “wanting to know more and in greater depth than is good for one — outrageous audacious, courageous and willful behavior.” A womanist is also “responsible, in charge, serious.” She can walk to Canada and take others with her. She loves, she is committed, she is a universalist by temperament.<\/p>\n

Her universality includes loving men and woman, sexually or nonsexually. She loves music, dance, the spirit, food and roundness, struggle, and she loves herself. “Regardless.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To any womanist reading this, rest assured there is a place for you in the Anglican Church of Canada where the bishops are universalists too, loving men and women sexually and non-sexually. Like you, they love food and roundness; they struggle – often with their trousers because of the roundness – and they definitely love themselves. They have little regard for anything other than their own culturally insular preoccupations – mostly sex and roundness – so one could certainly call them “Regardless”. You will fit right in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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