Self, Culture, and Others in Womanist Practical Theology.

To illustrate the complexities of black women's experiences of self-identification and racial embodiment, Phillis Isabella Sheppard provides an account that engages both psychoanalytic theory and the role of religion and cultural objects in self-understanding.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Sheppard, Phillis Isabella
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Black religion/womanist thought/social justice.
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Table of Contents:
  • Coverpage; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Black As You See Me; Part I Living Blackness: Womanist Perspectives on Black Women's Experience; 2 Black Women's Experience of Religion, Race, and Gender; 3 The Current Shape of Womanist Practical Theology; 4 Suffering and Pain, Longing and Love: The Embedded Psychology in Womanist Perspectives; Part II Psychoanalysis and Black Experience: Critique, Appropriation, and Application.
  • 5 Black Psychoanalysis and Black Feminist Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Resources toward a Critical Appropriation of Psychoanalysis6 Black Women and Self Psychology: Toward a Usable Dialogue; 7 Black Embodiment and Religious Experience after Trauma: A Womanist Self Psychological Perspective on Mourning the Loss of Cultural Selfobjects; 8 A Dark Body of Goodness Created in the Image of God: Navigating Sexuality, Race, and Gender, Alone and Together; Part III Womanist Practical Theology; 9 Black and Beautiful: Reading the "Song of Songs"; 10 Final Thoughts; Notes; Author Index.