あらすじ
Black Women's Spirituality & Quilting is a love letter, a prayer, and a tapestry of sacred testimony. In this powerful and soul-stirring work, Paulette Sankofa, Ed.D. reveals how quilting is far more than craft-it is spiritual language, ancestral memory, and womanist God Talk made visible. This book pulses with the heartbeat of Black women's lives, where stitches become sermons, and quilts become sacred texts. Drawing from her own story and the lived experiences of quilting women, Rev. Sankofa shows how quilting is an embodied act of faith, resistance, healing, and joy. Guided by Alice Walker's defining vision of womanism-deeply spiritual, celebrating Black womanhood, and fiercely rooted in love for Black people-this book reclaims quilting as a holy practice. It is where God Talk happens with every cut, every seam, every scrap repurposed into beauty. The quilting table becomes altar, sanctuary, and gathering place for the voices of mothers, aunties, grandmothers, and daughters who have stitched through sorrow, through silence, through celebration. Through stories drawn from diverse spiritual traditions-Christianity, African Traditional Religions, Indigenous knowledge and more-Rev. Sankofa invites readers into a sacred circle of sisterhood where every quilt tells a story, and every story carries a soul. This is a book for quilters and theologians, artists, women activists, culture keepers and truth seekers. It is for anyone who understands that the sacred can be found in the work of our hands, in the wisdom of our grandmothers, and in the quiet, powerful act of creating something whole from what's been torn. Black Women's Spirituality & Quilting is an offering. A call. A celebration. Enter in. Sit down. There's Divine work to be done-one stitch, one story, one sacred thread at a time.