African American Women's Experiences Around Conversion to Islam

Author(s):  
Joretha Bourjolly ◽  
Roberta G. Sands ◽  
Dorit Roer-Strier
2019 ◽  
pp. 101-131
Author(s):  
Nyasha Junior

Chapter 4 details connections between multiple Black Hagar traditions within scholarship in religious studies and biblical studies. In conversation with Delores Williams’s Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk, it addresses the linking of Hagar with African American women’s experiences and the notion of a tradition of African American appropriation of Hagar. This chapter highlights how some scholars within classics and biblical studies emphasize the African presence in biblical lands and peoples. Also, it analyzes contextual readings of Hagar that create analogies between her experiences and those of contemporary women. It considers the influence of womanist work within theology and other fields in contributing to the popularity of a Black Hagar figure.


2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice M. Phillips ◽  
Marlene Zichi Cohen ◽  
Anita J. Tarzian

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