God Is a Black Woman by Christena Cleveland
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The search for the Sacred Black Feminine
I loved this book. In God is a Black Woman, Christena Cleveland takes readers with her on a pilgrimage through central France to see eighteen Black Madonna statues, on a search for the Sacred Black Feminine. Each statue that she visits is unique in different ways. Cleveland weaves her own personal witness to her faith in the Sacred Black Feminine into the stories and adventures along the way. She gives unique names to each of the Black Madonna statues that she visits. One of my favorites is “Our Lady of the Side-Eye,” which is also called “Our Lady of the Rock.” Cleveland takes us from “whitemalegod” to a nurturing, beautiful, and fierce Sacred Black Feminine. She shares raw, painful, and faithfully honest stories from her childhood through her adult professional life. This book is eye opening about the depths of pain caused by a white patriarchal religious society that cruelly promotes “whitemalegod,” a false image of the Divine. Jesus was not white. Her testimonies from her childhood, youth, and adult life are shared in courageous ways that shows just how destructive the myth of whitemalegod has been upon Black women and all of society. Readers will be deeply moved by the love and freedom that Christena Cleveland finds in the Sacred Black Feminine. This is a book that has caused me to rethink my own understanding of the Divine. I do not find that this book undermines my faith as a Christian, but I do find that as a white male, the author affirms the disillusionment that I have with white patriarchal control of religion. I am beyond thankful for this book.
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Thought provoking
This is a well written book. The ideas within are very thought provoking indeed. That God is a Black Woman is evident in Dr Cleveland’s words. As a white woman, she gives me much to reflect on and process about how I benefit from whitemalegod and how I can go forward unlearning white supremacy and how to be antiracist.
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