Womanist Theology

William’s article, “Womanist Theology:Black women’s voices” expresses that womanist theology is the study that uses religious conceptual - specially regarding black women- and using those experiences, of black women, as a tactic tool to empower and liberate African American women. To be a “womanist” simply means viewing a particular context through distinctive lenses and not in the image of a feminist. William references Alice Walker’s quote in her story In Search Of Our Mother’s Garden, To distinguish the misinterpreted relationship between womanist and feminist, she says “Womanist is to feminist as purple to lavender” (page 179). Within Walker’s statement she affirms that although there is some sort of organic relationship between the two …show more content…
For instance, the opening dialogue between the mother-daughter relationship spiked my attention because it, like William says, resembles the historic event of Harriet Tuban’s revolution liberation activity where she discovered an escape pathway for slaves to run way from slavery. It says “Mama, I’m walking to Canada and I’m taking you and a bunch of slaves with me”. This powerful allusion allows, not only womanist, but for myself as a reader to envision the historic event that resulted in a community’s revolution for action. These “clues” provide womanist with sources they need to further advance there knowledge and understanding of women empowerment, and how women play a vital role in community stability. With a women being a catalyst and an authoritative leader in her community for social change, using the example of Harriet Tuban, womanist often research this undermine or “shelved under the rug” historic action as base to further investigate the everyday struggles many black American women face in today’s …show more content…
Hagar did as she was told and submitted herself back to her owners. Soon after, predicaments began to rise for Hagar, as Sarah gave birth to Issac. The birth of Issac, caused jealous Sarah to convince her husband to send off Hagar as her son, so that her - Issac- does not have to share their inheritance with each other. As Hagar and her son struggle to achieve survival needs, Jesus helps them by provided a water-well for them to drink from. When exploring this story of Hagar, womanist would argue that this story corresponds to the poor oppressed, African-American women’s history with enslavement. Hagar’s story emphasis that she was a slave, an African-America women who was owned by a family of different culture/race than she was, consistently abused and exploited by both genders-male and female, forced to sustain a surrogate role for her master, also attempted to take the initiative role to improve her survival situation. Christian womanist theologian would analyze and classify Hagar’s story as “a women’s liberation against oppressed power”, through the assistant of God, Hagar her and her son were able to discover sources they needed for survival - much like the African-American women did when they encountered