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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
