Refiner's Fire

by Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A.

• ISBN13: 9780800632533
• ISBN10: 0800632532
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

What does religion have to do with fomenting or transcending violence? In this fascinating work, Kirk-Duggan documents and analyzes religion's involvement in violence, in the Bible, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the youth scene of today

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Preface	xiii
Eyes on the Prize: Womanist Reflections	1	(16)
What Is a ``Womanist''?	2	(4)
Womanist Vision: Thinking and Seeing	6	(2)
Emancipatory Womanist Theology	8	(3)
A Life of Stewardship	11	(2)
Components of Womanist Engagement	13	(1)
bell hooks and Killing Rage	14	(1)
Womanist Theory: A Refiner's Fire	15	(2)
Take No Prisoners: Biblical Women Engaged in Violence	17	(20)
Women Warriors and Coconspirators	18	(4)
Assets of Power and the Place of Sex	22	(5)
Violence against Women and Children	27	(1)
Mimetic Desire and the Scapegoat Mechanism	28	(6)
Women Who Kill: Biblical Women in Modern Perspective	34	(3)
Lay My Burden Down: Spirituality Transcends Antebellum Violence	37	(18)
The Refining Fire of African American Spirituals	37	(3)
Myth, Ritual, and Oral and Written History	40	(1)
Rhetorical-Musical Analysis of the Spirituals	41	(4)
A Quest for Justice amid Life and Power	45	(3)
Synthesis: Creative Spirituality Signified	48	(2)
Analyzing Individual Spirituals	50	(3)
The Spirituals as Creative Change	53	(2)
Sojourner's Sisters: 1960s Women Freedom Fighters Right Civil Wrongs	55	(16)
African American Women Activists of the Nineteenth Century and the 1960s	56	(1)
This Little Light of Mine: Those Who Accomplished in Spite of	57	(14)
Ballads, Not Bullets: The Nonviolent Protest Ministry of Martin Luther king Jr.	71	(22)
Freedom Songs: African America's Spirituals Redacted	72	(1)
Wade in the Water: The Turbulent 1960s	72	(1)
America's Civil Religion	72	(2)
The Ethics and Theology of Martin Luther King Jr.	74	(6)
The Movement Since 1955	80	(7)
How Music Moved the Movement	87	(3)
King and the Role of Women	90	(3)
Soul Sisters: Girls in Gangs and Sororities	93	(20)
African American Sororities	94	(1)
Gangs Defined: Then and Now	95	(1)
Gangs and Sororities: Catalysts of Culture	96	(2)
Sororities and Sistah Gangs: A Socio-Historical Review	98	(3)
Black Women in Sistah Gangs	101	(5)
Imitative Activity of Sororities, Gangs, and Crews	106	(2)
Internal and External Onus: Society's Response and Expectations	108	(2)
Gang Summits	110	(1)
The Value of Girls and Women	111	(2)
Build Up, Break Down: Language as Empowerment and Annihilation	113	(18)
Language: An Accessible Life-Giving and Death-Causing Mechanism	114	(2)
Culture Provides Answers to Human Questions	116	(1)
The Scapegoating Mechanism	117	(5)
The Control of Violence	122	(1)
Language Connects Body, Mind, and Soul	123	(5)
Transformation	128	(3)
Daughters of Zelophehad: A Constructive Analysis of Violence	131	(30)
The Story of the Daughters of Zelophehad	132	(2)
Genesis 12:1-3 and the Priestly, Everlasting Covenant	134	(2)
Divine and Human Violence	136	(2)
Violence and Patriarchy	138	(1)
Violence and Imago Dei	139	(1)
Violence in Society: A Necessity?	140	(4)
Refiner's Fire: A Constructive Theology and Ethics of Violence	144	(5)
The Spiritual Life as Confessional Existence	149	(3)
Ethics: The Value Factors	152	(1)
Theory and Praxis and the Escalation of Violence	153	(4)
Womanist Theory Embodies God's Powerful Grace	157	(4)
Death as Worship: Celebrating Dying as Part of Life	161	(16)
Death: A Turnstile to the Unknown	162	(1)
Death: A Transition of Time-Ordered Life	162	(2)
Liturgical Seasons: Life Processes	164	(8)
Liturgical Moments: Death as Process	172	(2)
Womanist Liturgics: Hurting, Pain, and Grief	174	(3)
Notes	177	(26)
Index	203