35 research outputs found
Murdered souls, resurrected lives: postmodern womanist thought in ministry with women prostituted and marginalized by commercial sexual exploitation
No full textThesis (D.Min.)--Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, 2012.The commercial sexual exploitation of women—including, prostitution,
stripping, exotic dancing, massage brothels, human and domestic trafficking, and
Internet pornography—generates billions of dollars annually and, murders the
souls of women. Research confirms that most sexually exploited women
experience some form of sexual trauma. When many of these women seek a
church, specifically a black church, in an effort to find healing and wholeness,
their souls are further damaged. This may be due in part to the traditional method
of biblical interpretation in the Black Church. Grounded in the tenets of womanist
theological ethics and postmodern womanist theology, this project theorizes a
homiletical and pedagogical theological strategy for resurrection from soul
murder among women in the ministry of New Friends New Life-a faith based
program helping women recover from the damaging effects of prostitution and
other forms of commercial sexual exploitation
