Pilgrimage for Healing and Liberation, Part 4: The Black Madonna for Racial Liberation

Episode Topic: The Black Madonna for Racial Liberation

Join the Medieval Institute, the Initiative on Race and Resilience, and the departments of Africana Studies, Program of Liberal Studies, and Theology for the final webinar in our series on Pilgrimage! Can the embodied practice of pilgrimage move us toward healing and racial liberation? Christena Cleveland, Ph.D., joins us to discuss her new book, God Is A Black Woman (2022), which chronicles her 400-mile walking pilgrimage across France to the ancient shrines of Black Madonnas. Cleveland tells of the spiritual transformation she experienced as she encountered a God who affirms the sacredness of all Black people.

Featured Speakers:
LaRyssa Herrington , 4th year doctoral student in Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame
Christena Cleveland, Ph.D., founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal

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This podcast is a part of the ThinkND Series titled Pilgrimage for Healing and Liberation. 

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