Harvard Divinity School with Georgette Ilunga-Nkulu Ledgister
Georgette Ledgister draws on research with Luba women to ask whether “divine feminine” can responsibly describe African Indigenous ontologies that may resist gendering the divine.
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You want a rigorous challenge to exporting attractive Western spiritual categories into traditions organized differently.
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A demanding academic lecture and response, not a general introduction to African religions or Luba practice. Discusses war, gendered precarity, colonial categories, and comparison limits.
