Unraveling and reweaving sacred canon in Africana womanhood /

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In this collection, continental and diasporan African women interrogate the concept "sacred text" and analyze ways oral and written religious "texts" intersect with violence against African-descended women and girls. While the sanctioned idea of a sacred text is written literatur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ross, Rosetta E., 1955- (Editor ), Amenga-Etego, Rose Mary (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
Colección:Feminist studies and sacred texts series.
Temas:
Women and religion > Africa.
Women and religion > Feminist criticism.
Womanist theology.
Feminist theology.
Femmes et religion > Afrique.
Femmes et religion > Critique féministe.
Théologie womaniste.
Théologie féministe.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
Feminist theology
Womanist theology
Women and religion
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : continental and diasporan African Women engage each other and sacred texts / Rosetta E. Ross
  • Section I : Reinterpreting, revising, and re-inscribing oral texts
  • "Akokcbere Nso Nim Adekyee" : women's interpretation of Indigenous oral texts / Rose Mary Amenga-Etego
  • Exploring Yoruba proverbs with a feminine Lexis as a tool for reimagining African Womanhood / Helen Adekunbi Labeodan
  • A critique of Indigenous "wisdom" as enshrined in some Fanti sayings and practices on wife-beating in Ghana / Agnes Quansah.
  • Section II : Embodied texts, the body as text
  • When caged bodies testify : continental and diasporan African Women's memoirs as sacred texts / Liz Alexander and Melanie C. Jones
  • 'You don't have the right to keep us silent; we have reference in matters of religion and law' : voices of Ghanaian Muslim Women in Dawah / Rabiatu Ammah
  • Violence perpetrated against Women in Central Africa in light of God's word : two case studies / Antoinette Yindjara
  • Boko Haram insurgence, the Chibok Girls' abduction and implications for the girl-child in Nigeria / Ruth Oluwakemi Oke and Helen Adekunbi Labeodan
  • "Now you have struck a rock" : Rizpah, Black Mama Trauma, and the power of shaming in the face of the powers / Valerie Bridgeman.
  • Section III : Written texts
  • interrogating, unmasking, and taking charge
  • 'Those who entrusted their affairs to a woman will not prosper' : its implication in the Ghanaian Muslim community / Fatimatu N-Eyare Sulemanu
  • Judges 19 and the virgin daughter's trauma : "small voice" implications for African Women and Girls / Elizabeth J.A. Siwo-Okundi
  • Sita's story as a text of terror : a Motswana woman's impressions / Elizabeth Pulane Motswapong
  • Say my name : failure to name, misnaming, and renaming as acts of violence against Africana Women / NaShieka Knight.

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