Chika, EzeEzeChika2024-07-232024-07-232024978-3-98989-000-8https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/96502Susan Rakoczy is an emerita professor of systematic theology and spirituality at St. Joseph’s Theological Institute and the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Although, she is American, she has lived many years in Africa, specifically in Ghana and South Africa. She has been an academic of high reputation, who has contributed great insight towards women doing theology, popularly reflected in the book she authored in 2004 titled: In Her Name: Women Doing Theology. The book among many other things provides in depth discussion regarding origins and development of feminist theology and its interpretations in Africa and other continents. Therefore, this chapter reflects Professor Rakoczy’s thematic analysis of women’s trusting experience, which she presents as the core of feminist theology and spirituality. Accordingly, the engagement in this chapter features her analysis of how African women (including women across the globe) despite their experience of frustration in the face of patriarchy strive to flourish. In this context, the victory that African women achieve through trusting God and their experience to overcome the insidious links between patriarchy, violence and Christianity is made vivid, particularly in presenting the life story of Rev. Victory Nomvete Mbanjwa. Hence, the chapter relates women’s trusting experience to African feminist liberation theology, emphasizing the essential role women play in affirming/defining ‘who they are’ and ‘who they are becoming’. In summary, it can be affirmed that Professor Rakoczy presents African woman as one who surmounts any experience of limitations presented to her via Christianity and traditional religion.engFeminist theology and spiritualityTrusting experienceAfrican Feminist liberation theologyAfrican womenPatriarchyViolence and Christianity230bookpart