Tilling Sacred Grounds - Interiority, Black Women, and Religious Experience

Tilling Sacred Grounds centers Black women's interiority as a site for religious experience. Phillis Isabella Sheppard argues that interiority is a site for the negotiation of gender, race, and sexuality and finds articulation in public religious practice.

List of contents

Introduction: Interiority and Public Religion
Chapter 1: Audre Lorde: "from the Gut of Blackness" A Black Lesbian Spirituality
Chapter 2: Visions of Self and Transformation in Black Outsider Art
Chapter 3: Black Women Living Religion in Cyberspace
Chapter 4: "Because I am a Woman" Vocation and Trauma in Alecia Brown Life
Chapter 5: Tilling Sacred Ground: Meditation on Ritual and Resistance

About the author

Phillis-Isabella Sheppard is Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology and Culture at the Divinity School, and Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm is Brightbill Professor of Preaching and Worship at Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, Indiana.

Ronald J. Allen is Professor of Preaching and Gospel and Letters at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Summary

Tilling Sacred Grounds centers Black women's interiority as a site for religious experience. Phillis Isabella Sheppard argues that interiority is a site for the negotiation of gender, race, and sexuality and finds articulation in public religious practice.

Product details

• Authors: Phillis Isabella Sheppard
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781793638625
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-862-5
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Emerging Perspectives in Pasto; Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Ethnic Studies, Psychology, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Religion: general, Relating to African American people, Black & Asian Studies, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships