The Women Gathered, Stringing Beads of Resistance: Identity, Lament, and Hope: A Pastoral Care Reflection and Response, 2016

McCrary, Carolyn
Wallace, Beverly

2016

2010-2019

This essay shares reflections on the 2012 Consultation of African and African Disaporic Women in Religion and Theology by two professors of pastoral care and counseling. Using their experiences of Christianity, womanist theology, and African American history, they consider social constructs of race and gender and their effects on violence against women of African descent. The essay discusses civil rights, the enslavement practices of trokosi, the importance of self-care and positive self-identity construction, and the need for communal lament. The authors also discuss the need to affirm interdependent realities of African and African Disaporic women who live with experiences of violence, and include reflection on how such experiences shape womens lives. The act of remembering is explored through art, conversation, and reflections on the pilgrimage through castles of enslavement to offer a model of self-care and potential ways to use pain and memory to re-construct identity. Part of JRER Special Issue: Proceedings and Reflections The 2012 Consultation of African and African Diasporan Women in Religion and Theology, edited by Rosetta E. Ross and Evelyn L. Parker

Theology--Study and teaching
African American women

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