{"product_id":"god-is-a-black-woman-9780062988782","title":"God Is a Black Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this timely  much-needed book  theologian  social psychologist  and activist Christena Cleveland recounts her personal journey to dismantle the cultural whitemalegod and uncover the Sacred Black Feminine  introducing a Black Female God who imbues us with hope  healing  and liberating presence. For years  Christena Cleveland spoke about racial reconciliation to congregations  justice organizations  and colleges. But she increasingly felt she could no longer trust in the God shed been implicitly taught to worshipa white male God who preferentially empowered white men despite his claim to love all people. A God who clearly did not relate to  advocate for  or affirm a Black woman like Christena. Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France  on a 400-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas to find healing in the Sacred Black Feminine. God Is a Black Woman is the chronicle of her liberating transformation and a critique of a society shaped by white patriarchal Christianity and culture. Christena reveals how Americas collective idea of God as a white man has perpetuated hurt  hopelessness  and racial and gender oppression. Integrating her powerful personal story  womanist ideology  as well as theological  historical  and social science research  she invites us to take seriously the truth that God is not white nor male and gives us a new and hopeful path for connecting with the divine and honoring the sacredness of all Black people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894582902837,"sku":"ByrdShop_0062988786","price":34.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780062988782.jpg?v=1793766254","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/god-is-a-black-woman-9780062988782","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}