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Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: A Womanist Theology

Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: A Womanist Theology

Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: A Womanist Theology
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Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: A Womanist Theology

Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: A Womanist Theology

Overview

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 Made

Part 1: Faith and Worship

Part 2: Ministry and Social Justice

Part 3: The Public Face of Faith

Part 4: A Womanist Faith Challenge

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780800697570
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 10/01/2010
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

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).

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction Here I Am, Send Me: The Making of a Catholic Womanist Theologian 1

I Faith and Worship

1 We've Come This Far By Faith: Black Catholics and Their Church 23

2 One Family in Christ: Liturgy and Diversity 35

3 Black Catholic Revivalism: The Emergence of a New Form of Worship 51

II Ministry and Social Justice

4 Reclaiming Our Vision: Seeing Ministry with New Eyes 75

5 Who Do You Say That I Am" Speaking the Truth to the People 87

6 Black Catholics in the United States: A Subversive Memory 103

III The Public Face of Faith

7 The Color of Money: The Role of Christian Faith in Teaching 123

8 Walking with Jesus in Our Everyday Lives: Transformation and Salvation in the African American Community 135

IV A Womanist Faith Challenge

9 My Hope Is in the Lord 161

10 Bearers of Suffering, Bringers of Peace: A Womanist Perspective on Ad Gentes 181

Notes 197

Index 213

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