Your First Heart is Not in Your Chest: An African Indigenous Interrogation of the ‘Divine Feminine’

The resurgence of the “divine feminine” as a discursive concept and framework in religious studies and in popular practice in Europe and the United States, raises the question of the salience of the concept in African Religions. In this talk, drawing from ethnographic research with Luba women whose religious practice informs their positionality in war, Georgette Mulunda Ledgister demonstrated the African indigenous orientation towards un-gendered expressions of religion that allow practitioners to transcend the strictures and the structures of gender. This event took place on April 11, 2022. Learn more: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/