When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective

Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder provides an engaging womanist reading of mother characters in the Old and New Testaments. After providing a brief history of womanist biblical interpretation, she shows how the stories of several biblical mothers—Hagar, Rizpah, Bathsheba, Mary, the Canaanite woman, and Zebedee's wife—can be powerful sources for critical reflection, identification, and empowerment. Crowder also explores historical understandings of motherhood in the African American community and how these help to inform present-day perspectives. She includes questions for discussion with each chapter.

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• How to Preach a Dangerous Sermon
• Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality, and Biblical Interpretation
• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
• Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender
• Insights from African American Interpretation (Reading the Bible in the Twenty-First Century: Insights) (Reading the Bible in the 21stt Century: Insights)
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