Living the Intersection: Womanism And Afrocentrism In Theology

Womanism and Afrocentrism are the two most influential currents in contemporary African American culture. They both heighten black cultural self-awareness, even as they deepen knowledge of its historical sources. As womanism mines the ways and wisdom of African American women for Christian theology, so Afrocentricity excavates an African past to liberate the oppressed from Eurocentric worldviews.Yet are the two compatible? What does the mostly male Afrocentric scholarship contribute to the ...