Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: The God of Black Women and Breast Cancer; 1 Talking God and Talking Cancer; 2 The Power of Black Women's Cancer Testimonies; 3 Black Women's Cancer Support Seeking; 4 Healing Claims as Acts of Faith and Resistance; II: Black Women Respond to God and Breast Cancer; 5 Black Women Transformed into Cancer Survivors; 6 Black Cancer Survivors' Transformative Theology of Hope; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary
Elizabeth Williams draws on the perspectives of womanist theology and anthropology to examine how Black, American women use faith to achieve well-being after a breast cancer diagnosis. Williams portrays how these women have constructed a cultural theology of breast cancer that draws on their experiences and worldviews
