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I found God in me : a womanist biblical hermeneutics reader / edited by Mitzi J. Smith.

Contributor(s): Smith, Mitzi J. (Mitzi Jane) [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xi, 312 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781625647450 (pbk.); 162564745XSubject(s): Bible -- Black interpretations | Bible -- Feminist criticism | Bible -- Hermeneutics | Womanist theology | African American women -- Religious lifeBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Alice Walker's Womanist and womanist interpretative theory -- "Womanist" / by Alice Walker -- Womanist interpretations of the New Testament: the quest for holistic and inclusive translation and interpretation / by Clarice J. Martin -- Re-reading for liberation: African American women and the Bible / by Renita J. Weems -- Womanist interpretation and preaching in the black church / by Katie Geneva Cannon -- An African methodology for South African biblical sciences: revisiting the bosadi (womanhood) approach / by Madipoane J. Masenya -- Marginalized people, liberating perspectives: a womanist approach to biblical interpretation / by Kelly Brown Douglas -- Our mothers' gardens: discrete sources of reflection on the cross in womanist christology / by JoAnne Marie Terrell -- "This little light of mine": the womanist biblical scholar as prophetess, iconoclast, and activist / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Reading the Bible as a womanist biblical scholar -- A womanist midrash on Zipporah / by Wil Gafney -- Fashioning our own souls: a womanist reading of the virgin-whore binary in Matthew and Revelation / by Mitzi J. Smith -- A womanist-postcolonial reading of the Samaritan woman at the well and Mary Magdalene at the tomb / by Lynne St. Clair Darden -- Minjung, the black masses, and the global imperative: a womanist reading of Luke's soteriological hermeneutical circle / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Wisdom in the garden: the woman of Genesis 3 and Alice Walker's Sophia / by Kimberly Dawn Russaw -- "Knowing more than is good for one": a womanist interrogation of the Matthean Great Commission / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Silenced struggles for survival: finding life in death in the Book of Ruth / by Yolanda Norton -- "Give them what you have": a womanist reading of the Matthean feeding miracle (Matt 14:13-21) / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Acts 9:36-43: the many faces of Tabitha, a womanist reading / by Febbie C. Dickerson.

"This ... reader brings together eight classic essays, one new essay on womanist interpretation, six new original womanist readings of biblical texts, plus three reprints of womanist biblical interpretation readings written within the last three years."

Includes bibliographical references.

Part one: Alice Walker's Womanist and womanist interpretative theory -- "Womanist" / by Alice Walker -- Womanist interpretations of the New Testament: the quest for holistic and inclusive translation and interpretation / by Clarice J. Martin -- Re-reading for liberation: African American women and the Bible / by Renita J. Weems -- Womanist interpretation and preaching in the black church / by Katie Geneva Cannon -- An African methodology for South African biblical sciences: revisiting the bosadi (womanhood) approach / by Madipoane J. Masenya -- Marginalized people, liberating perspectives: a womanist approach to biblical interpretation / by Kelly Brown Douglas -- Our mothers' gardens: discrete sources of reflection on the cross in womanist christology / by JoAnne Marie Terrell -- "This little light of mine": the womanist biblical scholar as prophetess, iconoclast, and activist / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Part two: Reading the Bible as a womanist biblical scholar -- A womanist midrash on Zipporah / by Wil Gafney -- Fashioning our own souls: a womanist reading of the virgin-whore binary in Matthew and Revelation / by Mitzi J. Smith -- A womanist-postcolonial reading of the Samaritan woman at the well and Mary Magdalene at the tomb / by Lynne St. Clair Darden -- Minjung, the black masses, and the global imperative: a womanist reading of Luke's soteriological hermeneutical circle / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Wisdom in the garden: the woman of Genesis 3 and Alice Walker's Sophia / by Kimberly Dawn Russaw -- "Knowing more than is good for one": a womanist interrogation of the Matthean Great Commission / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Silenced struggles for survival: finding life in death in the Book of Ruth / by Yolanda Norton -- "Give them what you have": a womanist reading of the Matthean feeding miracle (Matt 14:13-21) / by Mitzi J. Smith -- Acts 9:36-43: the many faces of Tabitha, a womanist reading / by Febbie C. Dickerson.

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