num_pages: 259
description:  A celebration of the journey of African-American women toward a new spirituality grounded in social awareness black American tradition metaphysics and heightened creativity. Features illuminating insights from Alice Walker Toni Cade Bambara Lucille Clifton Dolores Kendrick Sonia Sanchez Michele Gibbs Geraldine McIntosh Masani Alexis DeVeaux and Namonyah Soipan. By a widely published scholar poet and activist who has been interviewed by the press television and National Public Radio's All Things ConsideredFrom the last part of the twentieth century through today African-American women have experienced a revival of spirituality and creative force fashioning a uniquely African-American way to connect with the divine. In Soul Talk  Akasha Gloria Hull examines this multifaceted spirituality that has both fostered personal healing and functioned as a formidable weapon against racism and social injustice.Through fascinating and heartfelt conversations with some of today's most creative and powerful women--women whose spirituality encompasses among others traditional Christianity Tibetan Buddhism Native American teachings meditation the I Ching and African-derived ancestral reverence--the author explores how this new spiritual consciousness is manifested how it affects the women who practice it and how its effects can be carried to others.Using a unique and readable blend of interviews storytelling literary critique and practical suggestions of ways readers can incorporate similar renewal into their daily lives Soul Talk shows how personal and social change are possible through reconnection with the spirit.
language: English
title: Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women
publisher: None