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The Bahá’í Faith and African American Studies: Perspectives on Racial Justice

2023-02-23T11:07:11-05:00

The Bahá’í Faith and African American Studies: Perspectives on Racial Justice provides readers who may already have basic or even advanced familiarity with the struggle for racial justice in the United States with new material from a less well-known angle: that of members of the Baha’i Faith, for whom the pursuit of racial justice, healing, and harmony is central to their religious expression. In this book, readers will find history, social scientific analysis, and personal memoir showcasing Black Baha’is as well as Baha’is from diverse backgrounds who are working to address America’s “most challenging issue.”

Into the kpanguima: Questing for the roots of womanism in West African women’s social and spiritual formations

2022-01-19T13:24:10-05:00

In this book chapter, Maparyan writes that womanism has emerged as a culturally situated social and ecological change perspective devised and named by—but not limited to—Africana women. While some scholars have struggled to define the uniqueness of womanism relative to feminism and humanism, others have authored decidedly womanist scholarship with great exuberance and little concern for how womanism relates to any other perspective. For many decades, it has been Maparyan’s scholarly quest to identify and name the defining attributes of womanism and to articulate what makes womanism a distinctive and potent worldview and praxis. This chapter attempts to situate womanism within the Black intellectual tradition.

Africanity, Womanism, and Constructive Resilience: Some Reflections

2022-01-19T13:31:53-05:00

In this article, Maparyan writes that we cannot realize the oneness of humanity while simultaneously negating the manifold cultures and cosmologies of the earth’s diverse and ancient peoples, particularly those “populations of special significance”—defined by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States as American Indians, African Americans, and various immigrant groups—who have endured the ravages of slavery, colonialism, genocide, and negation. By opening up new ways of seeing Black people, Black culture, and the African worldview—ways that defy and dissolve anti-Blackness—we advance the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh and accelerate the just and loving world order it heralds.

Social Justice and Luxocracy

2019-11-06T16:52:04-05:00

Maparyan writes a book chapter on social justice and luxocracy in the book, Black Women and Social Justice Education edited by Evans, Domingue, and Mitchell.

Spirituality in the classroom: Some womanist reflections

2019-11-06T16:45:15-05:00

In the book, Building Womanist Coalitions: Writing and Teaching in the Spirit of Love by Gary L. Lemons, Maparyan writes a chapter about her experiences with spirituality in the classroom.

You Are Never Not a Leader: Giving Value to Informal Leadership Endeavors

2019-10-09T12:24:48-04:00

Dr. Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., executive director of the �ǿ��, and Dr. Dionne Stephens contributed to Women Leading Change in Academia: Breaking the Glass Ceiling, Cliff, and Slipper edited by Callie Rennison and Amy Bonomi. The groundbreaking collection brings together the perspectives of diverse women academic leaders who discuss their rise to leadership and effective change-making in higher education despite underlying structural barriers or biases that disadvantage women.

Drs. Maparyan and Stephens reflect on their leadership experiences and explore the "legitimate leader"

Womanism and Black Women’s Health

2019-01-09T15:53:54-05:00

Maparyan writes about the spiritual movement of Womanism and the importance of Black women's healing of self, not just of others. "Black Women," she writes, "have proven historically and transculturally to be peerless healers across an unbroken thread of time and space. Yet Black women today must first turn our healing gifts upon ourselves."

Why the Academy Needs Womanism Now More Than Ever

2016-08-04T15:27:53-04:00

The Womanist Idea

2018-05-30T16:54:37-04:00

Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism, including a detailed discussion of the womanist worldview (cosmology, ontology, epistemology, logic, axiology, and methodology) and its implications for activism. From a womanist perspective, social and ecological change is necessarily undergirded by spirituality as distinct from religion per se which invokes a metaphysically informed approach to activism.

Veganism and Ecowomanism

2016-08-04T16:07:35-04:00

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