Beschrijving

In this landmark work of emerging African American womanist theology, Delores Williams finds in the biblical figure of Hagar – mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God – a prototype for the struggle of African-American women. African slave, homeless exile, surrogate mother, Hagar’s story provides an image of survival and defiance appropriate to black women today.
Exploring all the themes inherent in Hagar’s story – poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounters with God – Sisters in the Wilderness traces parallels in the history of African-American women from slavery to the present. A particular theology – a womanist theology – emerges from this shared experience; specifically, from the interplay of oppressions on account of race, sex, and class.
In Part I, Williams shows how reading Hagar’s story exemplifies the issues and problems black women face. The \