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Making a Way Out of No Way: a Womanist Theology (review)

Making a Way Out of No Way: a Womanist Theology (review) BOOK REVIEWS Making a Way Out of No Way: a Womanist Theology. m onica A. c oleman. m inneapolis, mn : f ortress Press, 2008. vii + 220 pp. $21 cloth. (r eviewed by Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt u niversity) onica A. c oleman achieves remarkable rigor in bringing together in one volume her long-standing interests in process philosophy and m theology, womanist theology and ethics, African diaspora studies, West African religions, and African American women’s literature. Making a way out of No Way (2008) is a tour de force in contemporary African American constructive theology and especially in womanist discourse on the religious experience(s) of African American women. c oleman insists on understanding black women’s religious experience through the lens of their complex subjectiv- ity, which is irreducible to singularity or totality. As typically found in academic womanist theology, c oleman does not begin her theology with definitions or the all-too-often overused “womanish” trope on which womanist theology has historically established its discipline. h owever, Alice Walker’s trope, which begins her collection of poems, In Search of my Mother’s Garden, is taken for granted throughout the book. d en fi itions pale to c oleman’s commitment to “theology as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Theology & Philosophy University of Illinois Press

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BOOK REVIEWS Making a Way Out of No Way: a Womanist Theology. m onica A. c oleman. m inneapolis, mn : f ortress Press, 2008. vii + 220 pp. $21 cloth. (r eviewed by Victor Anderson, Vanderbilt u niversity) onica A. c oleman achieves remarkable rigor in bringing together in one volume her long-standing interests in process philosophy and m theology, womanist theology and ethics, African diaspora studies, West African religions, and African American women’s literature. Making a way out of No Way (2008) is a tour de force in contemporary African American constructive theology and especially in womanist discourse on the religious experience(s) of African American women. c oleman insists on understanding black women’s religious experience through the lens of their complex subjectiv- ity, which is irreducible to singularity or totality. As typically found in academic womanist theology, c oleman does not begin her theology with definitions or the all-too-often overused “womanish” trope on which womanist theology has historically established its discipline. h owever, Alice Walker’s trope, which begins her collection of poems, In Search of my Mother’s Garden, is taken for granted throughout the book. d en fi itions pale to c oleman’s commitment to “theology as

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American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press

Published: Oct 26, 2011

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