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Sermon Maps: Towards a Womanist Spiritual Cartography
Topics: Black Geographies
, Religion and Belief Systems
, Cartography
Keywords: religion, black geographies, emotional geography Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract Day: Friday Session Start / End Time: 2/25/2022 05:20 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/25/2022 06:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) Room: Virtual 47
Authors:
Shaundra Cunningham, University of Tennessee
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Abstract
This paper will explore the multi-faceted and complex ways that Black women engage with and encounter sermons. I’m curious about the emotional landscapes evoked in the midst of the sound, cadence, and content of the sermonic moment and thereafter. This paper will explore the work of sermons and the ways in which certain "earmarks" (Spillers 1971) proffer hope and sustenance, or not, in the midst of an unexplored micro-geography and the attendant "spirited landscapes" (Miles 2019, Morrison 1987) of listeners and congregants. What kinds of co-constitutive place-making and world-making unfold in response to the sermon? To explore these questions, I shall examine a creative visual method constructed for pandemic fieldwork.
Sermon Maps: Towards a Womanist Spiritual Cartography