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Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk

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This landmark work first published 20 years ago helped establish the field of African-American womanist theology. It’s widely considered a classic text within the field.

Drawing at the biblical figure of Hagar mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but secure by God Williams finds a proptype for the struggle of African-American women. African slave, homeless exile, surrogate mother, Hagar s story provides an image of survival and defiance appropriate to black women nowadays. Exploring the topics implicit in Hagar s story poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounter with God Williams traces parallels within the history of African-American women from slavery to the current day. A new womanist theology emerges from this shared experience, from the interplay of oppressions because of race, sex and class. Sisters within the Wilderness offers a telling critique of theologies that promote liberation but ignore women of color. This can be a book that defined a new theological project and charted a path that others continue to explore.

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