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Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation

Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit

Womanist Wordings on God and Creation

Karen Baker-Fletcher (Author)

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Karen Baker-Fletcher here seeks to recover and renew the often strong historic tie of black peoples to the land, sometimes broken by migration and urbanization. Cultivating the ecological side of black womanism, she combines a keen awareness of environmental racism with reflection on her own journey and a keen constructive theological vision. She works the biblical and literary metaphors of dust and spirit to address the embodiment of God, Spirit, Christ, creation, and humans and to fashion a powerful justice-oriented spirituality of creation.

Baker-Fletcher evinces a strong sense of God in nature. She appreciates the glint of broken glass in an alley as the shimmer of a waterfall in the wilderness. And she writes in a simple, direct style, "a small effort at embodied theological wording, writing from the heart, where spiritual life lives, dances, and breathes more deeply."

Its earnest, reflective character makes this small volume ideal for individual, adult study, or classroom use.
  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9780800630775
  • Dimensions 5.25 x 7.75
  • Pages 142
  • Publication Date August 28, 1998

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"Our task is to grow large hearts, large minds, reconnecting with earth, Spirit, and one another. Black religion must grow ever deeper in the heart." — from the Preface

Table of Contents

    The Sisterist Twist
    Prelude

    PART ONE: DUST AND SPIRIT
  1. To Live as People of Dust and Spirit
  2. Nativity and Wildness
  3. Why the Hurricane?
  4. Gardening and Ancestry

    PART TWO: EARTH CRIES FOR HEALING
  5. Re-Membering Who We Are
  6. A Time to Heal
  7. Sisterist Voices, Sisterist Memories
  8. What about the Children?

    PART THREE: LOVES THE FOLK, LOVES THE SPIRIT, LOVES THE SELF, REGARDLESS
  9. Sojourning for Healing and Wholeness
  10. Lost World
  11. Natural Colors and Womanist Wear
  12. Loves the Spirit
  13. On Earth an It Is in Heaven

    Postlude
    Notes
    Acknowledgments
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