Powerful, body-based practices to help you reclaim confidence, dignity, and self-worth. As a woman of color, you are more likely to experience oppression, discrimination, and physical or sexual violence in your lifetime. In addition, your family may have experienced generational trauma and systemic racism going back for centuries. This old and new trauma can manifest in both the mind and body. However, there are ways you can free yourself from this trauma, build confidence in yourself and your abilities, and restore your powerful sense of self. Written by a woman of color for women of color, Decolonizing the Body offers proven-effective somatic, body-centered practices to help you heal from systemic oppression, trust the profound wisdom of your own body, and reconnect with your true self. And by slowing down, cultivating a daily ritual, and setting strong boundaries, you can reclaim your inherent dignity and worth—as well as those aspects of yourself that you may have cast aside in an effort to survive. With this empowering guide, you’ll To decolonize the body is to become whole again, and to come home again. Let this book be your guide on this crucial journey.
Christena Cleveland Boeken
Christena Cleveland is een sociaal psycholoog met een hoopvolle passie voor het overbruggen van culturele verschillen. Haar werk integreert sociaal-psychologische perspectieven op intergroeps- en interculturele processen met huidige dilemma's van verzoening binnen de christelijke kerk en de bredere samenleving. Ze onderzoekt hoe cultuur theologische en ideologische benaderingen van vredesstichting en verzoening beïnvloedt, hoe sociale processen het vermogen van een groep om zich te verzoenen met cultureel verschillende groepen belemmeren, en hoe individuele factoren interageren met sociale factoren. Haar academische werk biedt op onderzoek gebaseerde strategieën om onbewuste cognitieve, emotionele en identiteitsprocessen te overwinnen die leiden tot onjuiste percepties en een 'wij tegen zij'-mentaliteit, en zo verzoening belemmeren. Ze onderzoekt en schrijft momenteel over macht en ongelijkheid in de kerk als een pad naar verzoening.



God Is a Black Woman
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- 9 uur lezen
"For years, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland spoke about 'racial reconciliation' to congregations, justice organizations, and colleges. Yet over time, she felt she could no longer trust in the God she'd been taught to worship--a God who, she realized, did not affirm a Black woman like her. Her crisis of faith sent her on an intellectual and spiritual journey through history and across France, on a four-hundred-mile walking pilgrimage to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas, where she discovered the healing power of the Sacred Black Feminine. In recounting her mystical journey, Cleveland reveals how America's collective idea of God as a white man has perpetuated hurt, disillusionment, and racial and gender oppression. Integrating her stirring personal story, womanist ideology, as well as theological, historical, and social science research, she invites us to dismantle the cultural 'whitemalegod' and encounter the Sacred Black Feminine, giving us a new and hopeful path for connecting with the divine and honoring the sacredness of all Black people."-- Dust jacket
Disunity in Christ
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- 8 uur lezen
Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ. Though we may think we know why this happens, Christena Cleveland says we probably don't. Learn the hidden reasons behind conflict and divisions, the unseen dynamics at work that tend to separate us from others. Here are the tools we need to build bridges.