{"product_id":"god-is-a-black-woman-isbn-9780062988799","title":"God Is a Black Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this timely, much-needed book—a blend of theology and spiritual memoir—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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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 she’d been implicitly taught to worship—a 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer 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. \u003ci\u003eGod Is a Black Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is the chronicle of her liberating transformation and a critique of a society shaped  by white patriarchal Christianity and culture. Christena reveals how America’s 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\u003cp\u003eWhy is the image of a white male God so damaging—and what does it take to find a divine presence that truly liberates?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDeconstructing Faith:\u003c\/b\u003e Follow the author’s wrenching crisis of faith as she confronts a God who preferentially empowers white men and leaves Black women behind.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePilgrimage as Healing:\u003c\/b\u003e Journey across France on a 400-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas, uncovering a divine presence that offers profound healing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Critique of White Patriarchy:\u003c\/b\u003e Examine how the collective idea of a white male God has perpetuated hurt and oppression, integrating theological, historical, and social science research.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBlack Liberation Theology:\u003c\/b\u003e Discover a new, hopeful path for honoring the sacredness of all Black people and connecting with a God who stands with the marginalized.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“The Black Madonna chose well when she picked Christena Cleveland to tell her story. This page-turner of a book will prove to be a classic on this often-ignored spiritual archetype. Thanks to Cleveland, the Black Madonna stands up and sings in these pages and comes to life anew.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRev. Dr. Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing and The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cleveland pens a book that is a soul-satisfying read that surprised me with its candor and deft research. This book had me turning pages.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDr. Moya Bailey, author of Misogynoir Transformed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I read this book with my heart beating fast, my breath coming quickly, inhaling the fragrant liberation that Dr. Christena Cleveland delivers with picturesque narrative, psychological insight and theological imagination. She’s offering liberation to Black women like me and to all who would be free, delivering us to our better selves.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, author of Fierce Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGod Is a Black Woman\u003c\/em\u003e is at once challenging, revelatory and nourishing. It is akin to having a conversation with your smartest friend, the person who can make you think about something that seemed mundane in a whole new light.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Catholic Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Along with her intellect and scholarship, Cleveland brings to this book her embodiment and understanding of the Divine. …Cleveland’s prose, like Isabel Wilkerson’s, does a masterful job of simply relaying the author’s experiences to show how Whiteness again and again inserts itself into her search for the sacred Black feminine.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I really believe this book is going to save lives.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCole Arthur Riley, author of This Here Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890361266405,"sku":"NP9780062988799","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062988799.jpg?v=1730233119","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/god-is-a-black-woman-isbn-9780062988799","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}