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020			_a9780062988799 _q(paperback)
020			_a0062988794 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1371240804
092			_a231 _bC635
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100	1		_aCleveland, Christena, _d1980- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGod is a Black woman / _cChristena Cleveland, PhD.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bAmistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_a264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _bcolor illustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes study guide.
520			_a"In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland recounts her personal journey to dismantle the cultural "whitemalegod" and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine, introducing a Black Female God who imbues us with hope, healing, and liberating presence. For years, Christena Cleveland spoke about racial reconciliation to congregations, justice organizations, and colleges. But she increasingly felt she could no longer trust in the God she'd been implicitly taught to worship--a white male God who preferentially empowered white men despite his claim to love all people. A God who clearly did not relate to, advocate for, or affirm a Black woman like Christena. Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France, on a 400-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas to find healing in the Sacred Black Feminine. God Is a Black Woman is the chronicle of her liberating transformation and a critique of a society shaped by white patriarchal Christianity and culture. Christena reveals how America's collective idea of God as a white man has perpetuated hurt, hopelessness, and racial and gender oppression. Integrating her powerful personal story, womanist ideology, as well as theological, historical, and social science research, she invites us to take seriously the truth that God is not white nor male and gives us a new and hopeful path for connecting with the divine and honoring the sacredness of all Black people"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [255]-261).
505	0	0	_tShe who is worth seeking at all costs -- _tIn God we can't trust : the problem with whitemalegod -- _tShe who guides us along the freedom path -- _tGod of the gag reflex : whitemalegod's disgust for human need -- _tShe who cherishes our hot mess -- _tGod of bulimia : whitemalegod's war on our bodies -- _tShe whose thick thighs save lives -- _tMachiavellian monster : whitemalegod's liturgy of fear -- _tShe who loves by letting go -- _tGod of white women -- _tShe who is unapologetically Black -- _tShe who has the final word.
650		0	_aGod (Christianity) _9157117
650		0	_aFemininity of God. _9196786
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xReligion. _960954
650		0	_aBlack Madonnas.
650		0	_aBlack theology.
650		0	_aWomanist theology.
650		0	_aFeminism _xReligious aspects. _998002
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