The Book Of Revelation

Philosopher, Kelly Brown Douglas expands upon the work of sociologist Patricia Hill Collins and theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, as a means to employ a Womanist approach to biblical interpretation that examines the interlocking and interactive structures of race, gender, and class dominance. She emphasizes the marginalization of the Black female subject, whom she claims inhabits a “least of these” social location. Biblical Scholar Shanell Smith analyzes the book of Revelation as a means to offer a post-colonial womanist critique against imperial and patriarchal ideology as well as gendered metaphors. She engages biblical, literary and sociological sources by appropriating W.E.B. Du Bois’s notion of the “veil” and Homi Bhabha’s colonial ambivalence,

Biblical Scholar Madipoane Masenya builds upon the work of Black feminist Awa Thiam, a Senegalese writer and white feminists to illuminate the exploitation and oppression Black women in South Africa experiences. Canon, Junior, Sanders, and Weems all concentrate on the historical, socio-economical, religious and political contexts out of which Black women’s struggles emerge.
Other scholars turn to the biblical text as sources of interrogation. Theologian Maxine Howell conducts an ethnographic study of six Black women engaging the Mary and Martha texts (Luke 10:38-42 and John 11:1-12:8) to highlight how Black women rely on experiential knowledge that reflects Black feminist epistemology and results in a Womanist Pneumatological Pedagogy. Philosopher Sarajini Nadar provides a literary and postmodern reading of Ruth, through reader-response criticism in order to illuminate Ruth as a model for women in her context struggling to survive and resist oppression and domination. Sanders gives attention to four African women in the Bible to show that African women are key players in salvation history