Download or read book Sacred Voice and Unholy Silence written by Veronica R. Goines and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates how the formative practice of preaching might be transformed by the inclusion of historically suppressed voices – particularly African American/ black women – within the Black Church. In my research, I contend that African American women’s preaching emanates out of the common history of African American people but is distinguished by the particularity of sustained silencing – or at best – the muffling of black women’s voices in preaching – in the Black Church tradition. Hence, this study discloses how the ecclesiastical silencing of African American women has shaped the hermeneutical lens, theological content and homiletic structure of African American women’s preaching. Further, it examines how inclusive praxis might contribute toward the transformation of the church and society. Thus, through the theoretical frameworks of orality-literacy contrasts, womanist hermeneutics and homiletical method, my interdisciplinary research evaluates the absence and/ or underrepresentation of black women’s voices in preaching in African American Church context. Besides naming the dominant and oppressive social and ecclesiastical structures and practices that adversely impact black women and the church, this study also endeavors to contribute to a model for an inclusive, liberating and transforming homiletic that has broader relevance.