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Ch. 1-3 of Righteous Discontent
Discussion Questions to Lead Thinking for Religion 365 (11/2/2015) Chapters 1-3 of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham’s Righteous Discontent Chapter 1 – The Black Church: A Gender Perspective Accompanying poetry: Excerpt from I Sit and Sew by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson Non-authoritative roles do not mean necessarily equate to confinement within power structures (8). Have your thoughts on the “public sphere” for laywomen changed? How does the work of churchwomen create a safe, non-bourgeois public space post-Reconstruction during Nadir (5-8)? What are […]
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AME Women: Activism Within Laity
Author Jualynne E. Dodson investigates the roles of women during the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) movement in her book Engendering Church: Women, Power, and the AME Church. AME was born out of a “quest for spiritual expression” for Christian African-Americans, which could not be found within the racist, oppressive systems of worship often perpetuated by dominantly white European American churches (8). African-American women are accredited as the backbone of the AME movement; in fact, Dodson writes that women were […]
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Reflecting on the Semester (So Far)
Hi, everyone! I thought I would start the post on topics that we could reflect on/discuss from what we’ve read during this semester (so far). Feminism according to bell hooks, and how the women we’ve read about either exemplify/embody or defy hooks’ messages Sisterhood vs. solidarity — and where does individualism come into play? The roles of healing in spirituality/religion individually and institutionally (i.e., how does a sect repair its tarnished image/reputation, overcoming strife, etc.) Immanence (of course we have to […]
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Healing
“The work of the healer is a work of love. The healer reaches into these painful areas of the soul and gently reawakens hope. S/he gently reawakens the ancient memory of who the soul is.” – Mary Farrell Bednarowski This chapter on healing struck home for me. As I read this chapter sitting on the counter in Nummit, tears began to fill my eyes. This chapter is about women healing women. What else have I learned from experience at Dove’s […]
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