User:Mia Hash Sloan/Biblical Hermeneutics

Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics are biblical interpretations that names and describes black women's lived experience through race, class and gender. Womanism, a term coined by Alice Walker specifically for black women in the US and global community. Walker coined the trope of womanism due to perpetual invisibility of black within the landscape of feminism. Feminism, advocates for women's rights. Womanism is designed and has been curated to uplift and advocate specifically for black women who have historically been oppressed and subjugated to being considered "mules of the world". As a result black women have been pushed to the margins of society consequently leaving black women marginalized to invisibility and being voiceless. Womanist theologians, scholars, ethicists took black women's narratives and expanded the scholarship, discourse and engagement of religious and biblical studies.Womanist biblical hermeneutics amplify black women's voices and their lived experiences through biblical interpretations that are traditionally interpretations developed through a patriarchal lens. Womanist intergenerational biblical scholars Nyasha Junior Gay Byron, Vanessa Lovelace, Wil Gafney, Renita Weems , Katie G.Cannon , Delores S. Williams, Jacquelyn Grant , Emilie Townes amongst many other leading scholars are radically shifting biblical discourse black women. Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics seeks to uplift black women and their stories paralleling them to many women within the biblical text who are left often unnamed and devalued in their social location and social context. Womanist and black feminist scholars and theologians provide relevant tools that provides space for discourse and scholarship that has otherwise thwarted biblical narratives that are normally viewed through a white gaze, a concept that author Toni Morrison readily explains.