Chapter 2 Black Women’s Experience of Religion, Race, and Gender

Chapter 3 The Current Shape of Womanist Practical Theology

Chapter 4 Suffering and Pain, Longing and Love: The Embedded Psychology in Womanist Perspectives

Chapter 5 Black Psychoanalysis and Black Feminist Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Resources toward a Critical Appropriation of Psychoanalysis

Chapter 6 Black Women and Self Psychology: Toward a Usable Dialogue

Chapter 7 Black Embodiment and Religious Experience after Trauma: A Womanist Self Psychological Perspective on Mourning the Loss of Cultural Selfobjects

Chapter 8 A Dark Body of Goodness Created in the Image of God: Navigating Sexuality, Race, and Gender, Alone and Together

Chapter 9 Black and Beautiful: Reading the “Song of Songs”

Chapter 10 Final Thoughts