Self, Culture, and Others in Womanist Practical Theology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Black As You See Me

   1. Black As You See Me

      • Phillis Isabella Sheppard

      Pages 1-20

3. Living Blackness: Womanist Perspectives on Black Women’s Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Black Women’s Experience of Religion, Race, and Gender

      • Phillis Isabella Sheppard

      Pages 23-39

   3. The Current Shape of Womanist Practical Theology

      • Phillis Isabella Sheppard

      Pages 41-60

   4. Suffering and Pain, Longing and Love: The Embedded Psychology in Womanist Perspectives

      • Phillis Isabella Sheppard

      Pages 61-77

4. Psychoanalysis and Black Experience: Critique, Appropriation, and Application

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Black Psychoanalysis and Black Feminist Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Resources toward a Critical Appropriation of Psychoanalysis

      • Phillis Isabella Sheppard

      Pages 81-110

   3. Black Women and Self Psychology: Toward a Usable Dialogue

      • Phillis Isabella Sheppard

      Pages 111-125

   4. Black Embodiment and Religious Experience after Trauma: A Womanist Self Psychological Perspective on Mourning the Loss of Cultural Selfobjects

      • Phillis Isabella Sheppard

      Pages 127-141

   5. A Dark Body of Goodness Created in the Image of God: Navigating Sexuality, Race, and Gender, Alone and Together

      • Phillis Isabella Sheppard

      Pages 143-170

5. Womanist Practical Theology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Black and Beautiful: Reading the “Song of Songs”

      • Phillis Isabella Sheppard

      Pages 173-186

   3. Final Thoughts

      • Phillis Isabella Sheppard

      Pages 187-195

6. Back Matter

   Pages 197-226

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To illustrate the complexities of black women's experiences of self-identification and racial embodiment, Phillis Isabella Sheppard provides an account that engages both psychoanalytic theory and the role of religion and cultural objects in self-understanding.

• criticism
• culture
• dialogue
• Embodiment
• gender
• identification
• pain
• psychoanalysis
• psychoanalytic theory
• psychology
• race
• religion
• self psychology
• theology
• women

Phillis Isabella Sheppard is Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture at Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA.

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