Filled with humor and compassion, a landmark guide helps African-American women of all faiths find a balance between spirituality and sexuality by exploring the many issues that women face today and by looking at how interpretations of religious texts have profoundly impacted religious instruction in matters relating to women, sex, and spirituality.
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About the Author:
The Reverend Dr. Susan Newman, an ordained minister for the past twenty-five years and a nationally recognized preacher/speaker, is the author of With Heart and Hand: The Black Church Working to Save Black Children. She makes her home in Washington, D.C.
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African American women struggle with a deep division between the two fundamental pillars of their identity–spirituality and sexuality. The church tells them that to live “holy and sanctified” lives they must give up sexual activity outside the institution of marriage, and yet their bodies and souls cry out for a way to express and fulfill their natural passions. In this groundbreaking book, the Reverend Dr. Susan Newman, a nationally recognized minister and speaker, finally shows all women of faith how to find a healthy balance between their spiritual selves and their sexual needs.
Dr. Newman opens with a simple but startling premise: You can love God and love sex at the same time. Though it may sound irreverent, this premise is actually the basis for an essential journey to self-knowledge and reconciliation. As Dr. Newman shows, this journey has been denied to women for centuries because of church traditions and doctrines going back to the Old Testament and to the teac
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- PublisherOne World
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0345450779
- ISBN 13 9780345450777
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages195
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