Beyond the Womanist Classroom
Beyond the Womanist Classroom is a weekly podcast hosted by womanist biblical scholar Dr. Mitzi J. Smith (PhD). We discuss all things womanism, cutting-edge biblical interpretation, and justice. Please consider supporting us by subscribing to our podcast on buzzsprout.com.
Episodes
31 episodes
Season 2, Episode 8: After-the-Podcast Womanist Talk, "Shoot'n da Breeze"
In Season 2, Episode 8, podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith and her guests from Season 2, Episode 7, Dr. CL Nash, Dr. Carol Marie Webster, Dr. Almeena Al-Rasheed, and Rev. Shandon Klein stay by to reflect on some of the themes and womanist issues a...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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46:55
Season 2, Episode 7: Part II Black Women’s Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany & Steepled Towers
In Episode 7 of Season 2, Dr. Mitzi Smith's guests are two editors, Dr. CL Nash and Dr. Carol Marie Webster of a special issues of The African Journal of Gender and Religion Vol. 30 No 1 (2024) entitled "Black Women’s Radical Religious...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:02:25
Season 2, Episode 6: Theopoetics in Color by Drs. Oluwatomisin Oredein & Lakisha Lockhart-Rusch
Dr. Mitzi J. Smith's guests are Drs. Oluwatomisin Oredein and Lakisha Lockhart-Rusch, the co-editors of Theopoetics in Color: Embodied Approaches to Theological Discourses (Grand Rapids: Wm B Eerdmans, 2024). Available at Amaz...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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56:56
Season 2, Episode 5: "Black Women's Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany & Steepled Towers"
In Season 2, Episode 5, podcast host welcomes co-editors and contributors of the special issue of the African Journal of Gender and Religion entitled "Black Women's Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany & Steepled Towers."Co-...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:07:10
Season 2, Episode 4: "Horror and Religion" with Dr. DeAnna M. Daniels
Podcast Host, Dr. Mitzi J. Smith's guest is Dr. DeAnna M. Daniels. She is Assistant Professor of Africana and Religious Studies at the University of Arizona. In 2023 Dr. Daniels earned her Ph.D. in Religion with a concentration in African Ameri...
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Episode 4
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1:00:01
Season 2, Episode 3: "Queer Women Preaching" by Rev. Dr. Tijuana Gray
In Episode 3 of Season 2, Podcast host, Dr. Mitzi J. Smith talks with Rev. Dr. Tijuana Gray (DMin, Columbia Theological Seminary) about her completed doctor of ministry project: "Queer Black Women Preaching: Womanist Thought as a Tool for Norma...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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51:25
Season 2, Episode 2: The Book of Clarence
In Season 2, Episode 2, podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith discusses the film "The Book of Clarence" with Drs. Amy Lindeman Allen (Assoc. Prof. of New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary, IN) , Kyle Brooks (Visiting Asst....
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:12:53
Season 2, Episode 1: Black Women, Black Love Interview with Dr. Dianne Stewart
Podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith interviews Dr. Dianne Stewart about her book Black Women, Black Love: America's War on Africa American Marriage (Seal, 2020). This is an important study of the systematic and unrelenting terrori...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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57:13
Season 1, Episode 21: Conversation with Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems, Professor, Author, Screenwriter
In this episode 21 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith talks with Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems about the 18 tenets of Africana Womanism, which is a term Hudson-Weems conceptualized. The sixth edition of Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems' classic text ...
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Episode 21
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1:20:42
Season 1, Episode 20: Conversation with Dr. Kenneth Ngwa, Professor, Author, Activist
In Episode 20, podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith dialogues with Dr. Kenneth Ngwa, Prof of Hebrew Bible, Drew University Theological School, about his new book Let My People Live: An Africana Reading of Exodus (Westminster John ...
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Episode 20
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59:34
Season 1, Episode 19: Conversation with Rev. Dr. Raquel S. Lettsome
In this Episode 19, podcast host Rev. Dr. Mitzi J Smith talks with Rev. Dr. Raquel S. Lettsome, Distinguished Visiting Professor of New Testament and Womanist Hermeneutics at Eden Theological Seminary about her journey to womanism, her seminal ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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44:06
Season 1, Episode 18, Conversation with Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins, The Scholar with a Camera
In this episode 18 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith welcomes guest and colleague Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins, the Peachtree Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA. He is a documentarian, pastor, profe...
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Episode 18
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43:14
Season 1, Episode 17 Conversation with Rev Dr Angela N. Parker, Asst Prof of New Testament, McAfee School of Theology
In Episode 17 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith has a conversation with womanist colleague the Rev. Dr. Angela N. Parker. Dr. Parker is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, Decatur, GA. W...
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Episode 17
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40:59
Season 1, Episode 16: Interview with Dr. Mmapula D. Kebaneilwe, Womanist HB/OT Scholar, Univ of Botswana
In this episode 16 podcast host Dr. Mitzi J. Smith conducts a fascinating interview with Dr. Mmapula D. Kebaneilwe, Hebrew Bible/OT Womanist Scholar, University of Botswana, Humboldt Research Scholar based in University of Bamberg, Germany, and...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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59:01
Season 1 Episode 15: Conversation with Rev Dr Renita Weems and her Recent Essay on Katie Cannon
Hebrew Bible/OT womanist scholar, author, preacher, and public theologian Rev. Dr. Renita J. Weems is the guest of this episode 15 of Season 1 of the Beyond the Womanist Classroom Podcast. The host, Rev. Dr. Mitzi J. Smith speaks with Dr. Weems...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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59:05
Season 1, Episode 14 Interview with Rev Dr Sharon Ellis Davis
In this Episode 14, podcast host Rev. Dr. Mitzi J Smith (womanist scholar, author, professor) interviews Rev. Dr. Sharon Ellis Davis about her new book
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Episode 14
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54:52
Season 1, Episode 13 Interview with Dr. CL Nash of Misogynoir to Mishpat
In this Episode of Beyond the Womanist Classroom, podcast host Dr. Mitzi Smith interviews Dr. C L Nash about her womanist activist work in the United Kingdom and her brainchild Misogynoir to Mishpat...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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41:40
Season 1, Episode 12: Black Women Professors in Theological Education at PWIs: Challenges, Resilience, and Progress
In this Episode 12, Dr. Mitzi Smith (Podcast Host) has a conversation with her womanist colleagues, Dr. Marcia Y. Riggs (womanist ethicist) and Dr. Lisa Weaver (womanist scholar of liturgy) about negotiating life and work in a predominantly whi...
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Episode 12
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1:12:51
Season 1, Episode 11: Plenty Good Room with Dr. Marcia Riggs
In Episode 11 of BTWC, Dr. Mitzi J. Smith's guest is Dr. Marcia Y. Riggs, a womanist ethicist. Dr. Riggs discusses her book Plenty Good Room: Women Versus Male Power in the Black Church. Dr. Riggs argues that we must b...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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57:28
Season 1, Episode 10: "Seeing the Future of the African American Church in the Rainbow" with Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins
This is Episode 10 of Beyond the Womanist Classroom. Podcast host Dr. Mitzi Smith interviews Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins about his project "Seeing the Future of the African American Church in the Rainbow." Find more info at
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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43:14
Season 1, Episode 9: Voices of Women in the Struggle for Freedom: Let's Vote
In this Episode 9, Dr. Mitzi J Smith and co-host Rebecca Christian lift up the voices of women in the struggle for freedom and empowerment. These are women from the past, from Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer to Pearl Cleage and Michelle Obama a...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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33:53
Season 1, Episode 8: Burden & Responsibility of Citizenship: If it Wasn't for the Women!
This is Episode 8, Season 1 "The Burden & Responsibility of Citizenship: if it Wasn't for the Women!" with podcast host Dr. Mitzi J Smith (womanist professor, author and scholar) and co-host Ms. Rebecca Christian. We discuss Black wom...
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Episode 8
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43:43
Season 1, Episode 7 Women, Sexual Violence, and Power Part 1
In this episode 7 Women, Sexual Violence and Power, womanist biblical scholar Dr. Mitzi Smith discusses sexual violence against women and power. She focuses on the so-called biblical story of "the woman caught in adultery" and the apocryp...
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Episode 7
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42:49
Season 1, Episode 6: Conversation with Dr. Michael Newheart about Bible as Testimony
In Episode 6 of the weekly podcast "Beyond the Womanist Classroom," Dr. Mitzi J. Smith's guest is Dr. Michael Newheart, her first biblical studies professor at Howard Univ School of Divinity. Dr. Smith talks with Dr. Newheart about ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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56:10
Season 1, Episode 5: Womanism, Testimonies, and Biblical Interpretation
In Season 1, Episode 5 of the weekly podcast Beyond the Womanist Classroom, Dr. Mitzi Smith hosts a conversation with Ms. Rebecca Christian (a public school education in the DC area) about Womanism, approaching the Bible as a collection of test...
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Episode 5
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