Your First Heart is Not in Your Chest: An African Indigenous Interrogation of the ‘Divine Feminine’

The resurgence of the “divine feminine” as a discursive concept and framework in religious studies and in popular practice in Europe and the United States, raises the question of the salience of the concept in African Religions. In this talk, drawing from ethnographic research with Luba women whose religious practice informs their positionality in war, Georgette Mulunda Ledgister demonstrated the African indigenous orientation towards un-gendered expressions of religion that allow practitioners to transcend the strictures and the structures of gender.
This event took place on April 11, 2022.
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[@nemofawn8033]

It seems like a silly thing to notice but it does seems fitting that even in English you cant spell the word heart without "ear" being in the center of it 🖤✨

[@TheLotus2135]

Shanti's father LOOKS LIKE the Orisha Chango/Sango !!!!

[@bravecaucasian]

Most Southern blacks are indigenous to the Americas, meaning they were here long before my Scots-irish ancestors arrived in the 1700's.

[@TheLotus2135]

TRUTH, thank you Brave Caucasian !!

[@copperdee3073]

And were here long before the Siberian people called "Native American" today. They wrote the real Indigenous American out of history.....or at least tried to. We are waking up to the truth today.