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Diana Hayes: Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made

My Journey to Womanism

Date of Lecture: April 26, 2011

Diana HayesAbout the Speaker: Diana Hayes is professor of systematic theology at Georgetown University and is the first African American woman to earn a Pontifical Doctorate in Theology. She is the author or editor of seven books, including "Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: A Womanist Theology" and "Forged in the Fiery Furnace: African American Spirituality."

About the Talk: Hayes shares her own journey in the Catholic faith and becoming a womanist theologian.

Her talk was one of the Deitchman Family Lectures on Religion and Modernity. It was co-sponsored by Africana Studies and Women and Gender Studies and supported by the Rehm Family Endowment.

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