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DESCRIPTION:For this colloquium\, Dr. Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones will prese
 nt work and discussion from her new monograph\, Immaculate Misconceptions: 
 A Black Mariology (Oxford University Press\, 2025). Immaculate Misconceptio
 ns begins with the claim\, Mary is Black\, to ground how Christian-colonial
  imaginaries of salvation and identity are challenged when we rethink assum
 ptions about race\, gender\, and divine significance through the lens of th
 e Virgin Mary\, and specifically\, through a return to the Black Madonna. S
 taged as a Black feminist and womanist theological conversation\, the book 
 offers a layered journey through art\, church history\, theological inquiry
 \, and Black studies to consider a theology partus sequitur ventrem—arising
  from the condition of the Black Mother\, following the condition of the Bl
 ack Madonna\, and for the consideration of all those who pursue justice and
  life at the spiritual intersections of the world. The book questions the ‘
 legislative doctrine’ around our perceptions of Mary as the Mother of God\,
  and considers how Christian collusion with colonialism\, capitalism\, and 
 anti-Blackness have worked theologically to deny Blackness from the realms 
 of the sacred. Through the lens of the art and theology of the icon\, the t
 reatise thinks through Black women’s reproductive legacies theologically\, 
 and revisits the figure of the Black Madonna as fugitive\, the womb as hush
  harbor\, birth as liturgy\, and Black life as holy.
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SUMMARY:Take Me To the Water: Black Madonnas and the Initiation of Possibil
 ity
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URL:https://events.bc.edu/event/take-me-to-the-water-black-madonnas-and-the
 -initiation-of-possibility
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