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Beyond Slavery
Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies
Av B. Brooten
Inbunden, 2010
1098 kr
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This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true nature of marriage and the proper role of faith in public policy.
Beyond Slavery
Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies
Av B. Brooten
Häftad, 2010
607 kr
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This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true nature of marriage and the proper role of faith in public policy.
Self, Culture, and Others in Womanist Practical Theology
Av P. Sheppard
Inbunden, 2011
1425 kr
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To illustrate the complexities of black women's experiences of self-identification and racial embodiment, Phillis Isabella Sheppard provides an account that engages both psychoanalytic theory and the role of religion and cultural objects in self-understanding.
Religio-Political Narratives in the United States
From Martin Luther King, Jr. to Jeremiah Wright
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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The authors select sermons by Martin Luther King Jr. and Jeremiah Wright to as a framework to examine the meaning of God in America as part of the formational religio-political narrative of the country.
Women, Ethics, and Inequality in U.S. Healthcare
"To Count among the Living"
Av A. Vigen
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
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Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. When seriously ill, what contributes to a sense of being truly cared for and respected? This compelling book explores healthcare …
Black Men Worshipping
Intersecting Anxieties of Race, Gender, and Christian Embodiment
Av S. Boyd
Inbunden, 2011
1098 kr
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Black Men Worshipping analyzes the discursive spaces where Black masculinity is constructed, performed, and contested in American religion and culture. It judiciously considers the anxiety that emerges from Black male negotiations with these constructions
Black Bodies and the Black Church
A Blues Slant
Inbunden, 2012
607 kr
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Blues is absolutely vital to black theological reflection and to the black church's existence. In Black Bodies and the Black Church , author Kelly Douglas Brown develops a blues crossroad theology, which allows the black church to remain true to itself and relevant in black lives.
Womanism against Socially Constructed Matriarchal Images
A Theoretical Model toward a Therapeutic Goal
Av M. Hill
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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This book stems from a concern to assist pastoral counsellors in developing a therapeutic alliance with African-American women. It focuses on the social construct of the African-American matriarch, which can easily misinform the counsellor and cause emotional jeopardy for African-American women who …
Origins of Black Humanism in America
Reverend Ethelred Brown and the Unitarian Church
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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By examining the minister who helped inspire the founding of the Harlem Unitarian Church Reverend Ethelred Brown, Floyd-Thomas offers a provocative examination of the religious and intellectual roots of Black humanist thought.
Black Religion and the Imagination of Matter in the Atlantic World
Av J. Noel
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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This book situates the study of Black Religion within the modern temporal and historical structures in the Atlantic World. It describes how black people and Black Religion made a phenomenological appearance in modernity simultaneously and were signified in the identity formation of whites and their …
Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics
Av M. Harris
Inbunden, 2010
1074 kr
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Melanie L. Harris dives into the spirituality and life work of Alice Walker, literary genius and poet. Through the lens of Womanist ethics, Harris takes an inside look into the virtues and values that can be lifted from a study of Walker s non-fiction work. This work enlivens the debate in African …
Bible Witness in Black Churches
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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Baker-Fletcher explores the Bible as a uniquely authoritative text within the context of Black church worship and service to the world, as well as analysing the Bible's central role in three forms of witness: translation, proclamation, and empowerment.
Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America
Av R. Harrison
Inbunden, 2009
1130 kr
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Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped …
Tragic Vision of African American Religion
Av M. Johnson
Inbunden, 2010
1207 kr
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Many have used the term 'tragic' to refer to African American religious and cultural experience. After a studied meditation on and articulation of the 'tragic vision,' Johnson argues that African American Christian Consciousness is an expression of the tragic and a tragic expression of the …
Ethical Complications of Lynching
Ida B. Wells’s Interrogation of American Terror
Av A. Sims
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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In an increasingly globalized economy, Sims argues that Ida B. Wells s fight against lynching is a viable option to address systemic forms of oppression. More than a century since Wells launched her anti-lynching campaign, an examination of her work questions America s use of lynching as a tool to …
Racism and the Image of God
Av K. Teel
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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From her perspective as a white feminist theologian, Karen Teel dialogues with five womanist thinkers to develop a Christian theology of the body that can compel Christians, especially U. S. Christians of European descent, to actively resist the sin of racism.
Indigenous Black Theology
Toward an African-Centered Theology of the African American Religious Experience
Av J. Clark
Inbunden, 2012
1207 kr
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This work is concerned with the way Black Christian formation, because of the acceptance of universal, absolute, and exclusive Christian doctrines, seems to justify and even encourage anti-African sentiment.
Whiteness and Morality
Pursuing Racial Justice Through Reparations and Sovereignty
Av J. Harvey
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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This book considers how white U.S.-Americans may participate in racial justice-making, and shows how 'white' identities embody problematic moral realities, arguing that reparations for people of African descent and sovereignty for Native peoples are critical for racial justice and transformation of …
Transformative Pastoral Leadership in the Black Church
Av J. Tribble
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
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Transformative Pastoral Leadership in the Black Church offers practical wisdom from comparative analysis of the experiences of a male pastor and a female pastor in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Church leaders must be transformed themselves as they are transforming their churches to …
Theological Account of Nat Turner
Christianity, Violence, and Theology
Av K. Lampley
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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In this unique volume, Lampley analyzes the theology of Nat Turner's violent slave rebellion in juxtaposition with Old Testament views of prophetic violence and Jesus' politics of violence in the New Testament and in consideration of the history of Christian violence and the violence embedded in …
Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century
Rhetoric of Identification
Av A. Owens
Inbunden, 2014
1098 kr
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This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.
Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics
Av M. Harris
Häftad, 2013
823 kr
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Melanie L. Harris dives into the spirituality and life work of Alice Walker, literary genius and poet. Through the lens of Womanist ethics, Harris takes an inside look into the virtues and values that can be lifted from a study of Walker s non-fiction work. This work enlivens the debate in African …
African American Female Mysticism
Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism
Inbunden, 2013
1534 kr
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African-American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth Century Religious Activism is an important book-length treatment of African-American female mysticism. The primary subjects of this book are three icons of black female spirituality and religious activism - Jarena Lee, Sojourner Truth, and Rebecca Cox …
Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation
Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon
Inbunden, 2013
1425 kr
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The Black Church is an institution that emerged in rebellion against injustice perpetrated upon black bodies. How is it, then, that black women's oppression persists in black churches? This book engages the Chalcedonian Definition as the starting point for exploring the body as a moral dilemma.
Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence
Inbunden, 2014
1425 kr
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This book is about Black women's search for relationships and encounters that support healing from intimate and cultural violence. Narratives provide an ethnographic snapshot of this violence, while raising concerns over whether or not existing paradigms for pastoral care and counseling are …
Queering of Black Theology
James Baldwin's Blues Project and Gospel Prose
Av E. Kornegay
Inbunden, 2013
1316 kr
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Kornegay's brilliant and insightful use of James Baldwin's literary genius offers a way forward that promises to overcome the divide between religion and sexuality that is of crucial importance not only for black church and theology but for socio-political-religious and theological discourse …
Sherman’s March and the Emergence of the Independent Black Church Movement: From Atlanta to the Sea to Emancipation
Av L. Whelchel
Inbunden, 2014
569 kr
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A discourse on the historical emergence of African American Churches as dynamic cultural presences which occurred in the aftermath of the Civil War, and specifically in the wake of General Sherman's march from Atlanta to Savannah.
Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism
Europe, Africa, and North America
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This volume assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on whether or how racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender differences are validated by churches (and especially black churches) torn between …
Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions
Av L. Manigault-Bryant, T. Lomax m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1098 kr
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Tyler Perry has made over half a billion dollars through the development of storylines about black women, black communities and black religion. Yet, a text that responds to his efforts from the perspective of these groups does not exist.
James Baldwin’s Understanding of God
Overwhelming Desire and Joy
Av J. Young
Inbunden, 2014
1639 kr
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This book focuses on Baldwin's experiences as a gifted black writer who fought valiantly against racism and wrote openly about homosexual relationships. Baldwin's God is a 'mysteriously impersonal' force he calls love- 'something . . . like a fire, like the wind, something which can change you.'
