Tilling Sacred Grounds

Phillis Isabella Sheppard

doi:10.5771/9781793638632

Summary

Tilling Sacred Grounds examines Black women’s interiority and negotiation of race, gender, and sexuality in religious spaces and religious practices. Phillis Isabella Sheppard argues for the importance of the exchange between interiority and public spaces, and examines religion in cyberspace, art, ritual, and street ministry. She refigures the location of religious experience by retrieving Black women’s interiority as religious space. Often excluded from Black religious studies, interiority is necessary for understanding Black women’s complex and even unconscious relationship with religion. The book weaves a thread by stressing that interiority has subjective, intersubjective, conscious, unconscious, and relational dimensions formed in historical, and social contexts.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3862-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3863-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 154
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. 1. 1. Interiority Matters No access
    2. Lived Religion Is Complicated No access
  2. Interiority in Public Spaces, Culture in Individual Practices: Religion As a Selfobject No access
  3. 1. From the Gut of Blackness: Audre Lorde No access
    2. Chapter 2: Visions of Self and Transformation in Black Outsider Art No access
    3. Chapter 3: Black Women Living Religion in Cyberspace No access
    4. Chapter 4: Vocation and Trauma No access
    5. Chapter 5: Mediation on Ritual and Resistance No access
  4. Notes No access
1. “From the Gut of Blackness”—A Black Lesbian Spirituality Incantation No access
2. Introduction No access
3. To Be Black No access
4. Listening to Black Embodiment No access
5. Reading Black Bodies and Black Psyches: Sites of Black Epistemologies No access
6. A Pulsating Interiority: Spirituality and the Erotic No access
7. Facing the Fears in the Mirror No access
8. Sister Love No access
9. Homeward Bound No access
10. Notes No access
1. Art and Cultural Mirroring No access
2. Outsider to Insider: Called to Create No access
3. Suspecting Artists’ Interiority: Deeping a Strategy of Social Control No access
4. Missionary Mary Proctor “This Is My Calling” No access
5. “Now What God?” Loss, Melancholia, Mourning, and Creativity No access
6. Transformation from “Junk” Collector to “Artist” No access
7. Becoming Mary: Early Formational Landscape No access
8. Interiority, Liminal, and Public Space: The Gallery No access
9. Kinship, Twinship, and Re-membering in Vocation No access
10. There’s Always a Message No access
11. Notes No access
1. Cyberspace As Artifact and Cultural Container No access
2. Transgendering Religion in the Blogosphere No access
3. Born Good: Moral Formation and Faith No access
4. Call and Response: Trans Public Religion and Interior Transformation No access
5. Remembrance As Community Care No access
6. Black Zen Buddhist Teaching in Cyberspace No access
7. “Choquette” and Womanist Audacious Sensibilities No access
8. Cyberspace Sangha: The Path of Embodiment and Rage in Spiritual Transformation No access
9. An Insider-Outsider Muslimah No access
10. Colorism, Gender, and Marriage No access
11. Cyberspace As Black Religious Space No access
12. Notes No access
1. Website As Church Bulletin, Brochure, and Invitation to Deepen Spirituality No access
2. Trauma in a Call to Ministry No access
3. Sexism and the Lack of Recognition in the Black Church No access
4. Church As a Therapeutic Community No access
5. Laminations, Regret, and Acceptance: Unrequited Vocational Desires No access
6. “Because I’m Female” The Trauma of Sexism No access
7. Must Some of Us Be Small? Vocation, Trauma, and Religion No access
8. Practices of Interiority and Meaning-Making No access
9. Notes No access
1. Black Women in Ritual Spaces No access
2. Janelle Monae and Rituals of Recovery and Resistance No access
3. Black Love No access
4. Rituals, Ancestors, and Resistance No access
5. Shella No access
6. Raised up in the Church No access
7. I Met a Girl: Trouble in a Christian college No access
8. This is my joy: Being Lesbian and Doing the Spiritual Political Work No access
9. Spiritual Work and Subject Re/formation No access
10. Notes No access
1. Womanist Ethnographic Lens No access
2. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 135 - 144
Index No access Pages 145 - 152
About the Author No access Pages 153 - 154