By Chanequa Walker-Barnes
ISBN-10: 1620320665
ISBN-13: 9781620320662
"Too Heavy a Yoke is a much-needed, considerate, and nuanced exam of the 'Strong Black lady' stereotype--a major new contribution to a number of disciplines of pastoral care and counseling, psychology, sociology, African American and womanist-feminist experiences, and optimistic theology. Walker Barnes attracts on either womanist and Trinitarian theologies to check how the church can play an element in therapeutic and freeing black ladies from 'the burden of strength.' Meticulously researched and fantastically written, this ebook belongs at the shelf of each minister and pastoral counselor, and certainly each lady who is aware in her soul the burdens of being a 'StrongBlackWoman.'"
--Pamela Cooper-White, Ben G. and Nancye Clapp Gautier Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care, and Counseling, Columbia Theological Seminary
"Well performed! This ebook is a much-needed reward to the sector of pastoral theology. it's a good nuanced and explicated learn quantity and a pragmatic advisor for caregivers, pastors, those that love girls being affected by the ideology of the 'StrongBlackWoman,' in addition to these in recovery."
--Marsha Foster Boyd, President Emerita, Ecumenical Theological Seminary
"A prayerful, prophetic, poetic, pastoral, strong womanist research of the StrongBlackWoman, from an interdisciplinary, experiential viewpoint names the context, content material, complexities, and pathology of many Black women's embodied archetypal, systemic oppression and posits hopeful ideas for a paradigmatic shift of restoration. Woven with artistry and fervour, Too Heavy a Yoke is a must-read for clergy, therapists, caregivers, and any folks or teams devoted to the liberation of black girls, eventually the liberation of all society."
--Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Professor of faith, Shaw college Divinity School
Chanequa Walker-Barnes is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at McAfee college of Theology, Mercer college, Atlanta, Georgia. She is a certified psychologist and a candidate for ordination within the United Methodist Church. Her articles were released in a variety of scholarly journals, together with Journal of Pastoral Theology, baby Development, and American magazine of group Psychology.
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