Systemic Oppression and Depression in Black Women: A Path Forward Through Pastoral and Spiritual Care is a pastoral theology text that centers the lived experiences of Black Christian women living with persistent depression. Drawing on constructivist grounded theory, clinical social work, self-psychology, social epidemiology, and womanist theology, Rochelle Johnson conducts interviews and convenes focus groups with Black women of faith to examine how racism, sexism, classism, historical and intergenerational trauma, and the Strong Black Woman myth shape their experiences of depressive suffering. The study also investigates how Black church theologies of sin, suffering, sacrifice, and the body can either intensify stigma or foster healing. Johnson proposes an embodied, culturally responsive model of pastoral and spiritual care that calls Black churches to destigmatize depression, reimagine theological interpretations of suffering and the cross, and cultivate practices and communities that promote hope, harm reduction, and recovery for Black women\u2019s minds, bodies, and spirits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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