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God Is a Black Woman : Christena Cleveland
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Christena Cleveland
Paperback
SOCIAL SCIENCE/Race & Ethnic Relations
A timely, much-needed book that weaves personal pilgrimage and societal reckoning to dismantle the cultural “whitemalegod” and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine—and ultimately hope, healing, and liberation.
“God Is a Black Woman is at once challenging, revelatory and nourishing.”—National Catholic Reporter
For years, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland spoke about “racial reconciliation” to congregations, justice organizations, and colleges. Yet over time, she felt she could no longer trust in the God she’d been taught to worship—a God who, she realized, did not affirm a Black woman like her. Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France, on a four-hundred-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas, where she discovered the healing power of the Sacred Black Feminine. In recounting her mystical journey, Cleveland reveals how Am
God Is a Black Woman : Christena Cleveland
$17.99