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Womanist theology is a methodological approach to theology which centers the experience and perspectives of Black women, particularly African-American women. The first generation of womanist theologians and ethicists began writing in the mid to late 1980s, and the field has since expanded significantly.
Her studies centered on topics related to African American women's spirituality and ethnography in Womanist theology. [9] Mitchem completed her doctoral degree in Philosophy at Garrett in 1998, [ 6 ] with her dissertation entitle d, Getting off the cross: African-American women, health, and salvation .
Delores Seneva Williams (November 17, 1934 – November 17, 2022) [7] was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor notable for her formative role in the development of womanist theology and best known for her book Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk.
Walker defined "Womanist" in a four-part definition, [4] that set the black female experience in contradistinction to both white women and black men. Using this frame, Womanist theology and ethics was born through the work of Cannon, Williams, and Grant. Floyd-Thomas' work continues this Womanist scholarship started in theology and ethics.
Mary Shawn Copeland (born August 24, 1947), known professionally as M. Shawn Copeland, is a retired American womanist and Black Catholic theologian, and a former religious sister. She is professor emerita of systematic theology at Boston College and is known for her work in theological anthropology, political theology, and African American ...
Cheryl J. Sanders is an African-American professor and scholar of Christian Ethics. Her work on womanist ethics has been influential in the development of the field. She teaches Christian Ethics at Howard University School of Divinity.
She gained a baccalaureate degree and a licentiate in sacred theology from the Catholic University of America, [2] writing a dissertation on the theology of James H. Cone. [3] She went on to gain a doctoral degree in religious studies, and a pontifical doctorate at KU Leuven , [ 2 ] where she wrote a dissertation on liberation theology .
Marcia Y. Riggs is an American author, the J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics, and the Director of ThM Program at Columbia Theological Seminary, a womanist theologian, and a recognized authority on the black woman's club movement of the nineteenth century.