| Description |
1 online resource (417 pages) |
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Contemporary sociological perspectives |
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Contemporary sociological perspectives series.
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| Contents |
THE Womanist IDEA; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments of Sources; PART 1: THE METAPHYSICAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE WOMANIST IDEA; Chapter 1 LUXOCRACY : Rule by Light; Chapter 2 Womanist Origins: Reading Alice Walker, Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi, and Clenora Hudson-Weems; Chapter 3 Womanist Worldview/Womanism as Spiritual Movement; Chapter 4 Womanist Methodology: Transforming Consciousness, Changing the World; Chapter 5 A Spiritual Archaeology of the Womanist Idea; Chapter 6 Spiritual Activism: A Womanist Approach; PART 2: WOMANIST SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM: FIVE CASE STUDIES |
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Chapter 7 Transforming War into Peace: Sister Chan Khong and Learning True LoveChapter 8 The Alchemy of Forgiveness: Immaculée Ilibagiza and Left to Tell; Chapter 9 Turning a Prison into an Ashram: Kiran Bedi and It's Always Possible; Chapter 10 Speaking Truth Inside Power: Pregs Govender's Love and Courage; Chapter 11 Spiritualized Sustainability: Wangari Maathai, Unbowed, and The Green Belt Movement; PART 3: BEYOND WOMANISM; Chapter 12 Witness to a Testimony: Womanist Reflections on the Life and Loss of a Daughter; Epilogue Beyond Womanism: The Soul of the Womanist Idea; Notes; Bibliography |
| Summary |
Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism, including a detailed discussion of the womanist worldview (cosmology, ontology, epistemology, logic, axiology, and methodology) and its implications for activism. From a womanist perspective, social and ecological change is necessarily undergirded by spirituality -- as distinct from religion per se -- which invokes a metaphysically informed approach to activism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-377) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Spiritual life.
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Womanism.
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Mysticism.
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Social change.
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Mysticism
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mysticism.
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Mysticism
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Social change
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Spiritual life
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Womanism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203135938 |
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0203135938 |
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