Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspective on Hope, Salvation & Transformation

Name: Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspective on Hope, Salvation & Transformation
Brand: Orbis Books
SKU: 0751404
Price: 31.50 USD
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Author: Emilie Townes
ISBN: 9781570751400

By: Emilie Townes

Orbis Books / 1997 / Paperback

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This book continues the conversations begun in Emilie Towne's path-breaking A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering. Once again, Townes brings together essays by leading womanist theologians, interweaving a concern for matters of race, gender, and class, as these bear on the survival and well-being of the African-American community. In Embracing the Spirit the emphasis is not on evil and suffering, but on "hope, salvation, and transformation" for individuals and their communities.

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Title: Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspective on Hope, Salvation & Transformation
By: Emilie Townes
Format: Paperback
Vendor: Orbis Books
Publication Date: 1997

Weight: 1 pound 3 ounces
ISBN: 1570751404
ISBN-13: 9781570751400
Stock No: WW0751404

Publisher's Description

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Once again, Emilie Townes brings together essays by leading womanist theologians, interweaving a concern for matters of race, gender, and class as these bear on the well-being of the African-American community. Her emphasis is not on evil and suffering, but on "hope, salvation, and transformation" for individuals and their communities.

Author Bio

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Emilie M. Townes is the first Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale University Divinity School. She is the former Carolyne Williams Beaird Professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Townes is the author of 'Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope' and 'In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality as Social Witness'. She is also the editor of A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering and Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspectives on Hope, Salvation, and Transformation. In 2005, Townes became the first African American woman elected vice president of the American Academy of Religion. She will assume its presidency in 2008.