[PDF] Black Womanist Ethics eBook

Author : Katie G. Cannon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2006-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1597523739

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This study articulates the distinctive moral character of the Afro-American women's community. Beginning with a reconstructive history of the Afro-American woman's situation in America, the work next traces the emergence of the Black woman's literary tradition and explains its importance in expressing the moral wisdom of Black women. The life and work of Zora Neale Hurston is examined in detail for her unique contributions to the moral tradition of the Afro-American woman. A final chapter initiates a promising exchange between the works of Hurston and those of Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr. A pioneering and multi-dimensional work, 'Black Womanist Ethics' is at once a study in ethics, gender, and race.

Author : Emilie M. Townes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230601626

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This groundbreaking book provides an analytical tool to understand how and why evil works in the world as it does. Deconstructing memory, history, and myth as received wisdom, the volume critically examines racism, sexism, poverty, and stereotypes.

Author : Eboni Marshall Turman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137373881

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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.

Author : Katie Geneva Cannon
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506471307

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Katie's Canon is a selection of essays written for a variety of occasions throughout Cannon's celebrated career. This new edition contains three additional essays and a new foreword by Emilee Townes. The volume weaves together the particularities of Cannon's own history and the oral tradition of African American women, African American women's literary traditions, and sociocultural and ethical analysis. The result is a classic. Cannon addresses racism and economics, analyses of Zora Neale Hurston as a resource for a constructive ethic, the importance of race and gender in the development of a Black liberation ethic, womanist preaching in the Black church, and slave ideology and biblical interpretation.

Author : Katie Geneva Cannon
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664235379

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Writing across theological disciplines, nine African American women scholars reflect on what it means to live as responsible doers of justice. With some classic essays and some contributions published here for the first time, each chapter in this new volume in the Library of Theological Ethics series presents analytical strategies for understanding the story of womanist scholarship in the service of the black community. The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.

Author : Emilie M. Townes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1597525375

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In 'Breaking the Fine Rain of Death', Emilie Townes focuses on the health care issues affecting African Americans and does so from a womanist perspective by paying attention to race and class as well as gender. Townes describes the lamentable history of health care in African American communities and the disease that affect African Americans disproportionately ÐÐ diabetes, hypertension, low-birthrate babies, and drug-related illnessesÐÐas well as cultural, genetic, and socio-economic factors that account for them. Townes then offers models of care that have worked in some African American communities and that need to be used on a broader scale. She explores healing models sensitive to class and cultural context, and provides practical recommendations relevant to the needs of the Black Church and the African American community.

Author : M. Harris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230113931

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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 and African American religious thought about the fluidity of spirituality and widens the conversation to encourage readers to embrace religious traditions inclusive of and beyond Christianity as the foundations for empowerment of both women and ethical values.

Author : Traci C. West
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 1999-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0814793355

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A collection of first-person accounts documenting a historical legacy of violence against black women in the U.S. In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters within a discussion of the psycho-social impact of intimate assault against African American women. Distinctive for its treatment of the role of the church in response to violence against African American women, the book identifies specific social mechanisms which contribute to the reproduction of intimate violence. West insists that cultural beliefs as well as institutional practices must be altered if we are to combat the reproduction of violence, and suggests methods of resistance which can be utilized by victim-survivors, those in the helping professions, and the church. Interrogating the dynamics of black women's experiences of emotional and spiritual trauma through the diverse disciplines of psychology, sociology, and theology, this important work will be of interest and practical use to those in women's studies, African American studies, Christian ethics, feminist and womanist theology, women's health, family counseling, and pastoral care.

Author : Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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[ital]Mining the Motherlode[ital] clearly defines the tenets, resources, and methods of womanist Christian social ethics by providing a womanist orientation on how racial and gender ideologies as well as social position inform research methods for this field. Floyd-Thomas accomplishes this by: [bullet] a) articulating the methodological contributions that womanist ethicists have made in this field of Christian ethics [bullet] b) distinguishing between [ital]traditional Christian ethics[ital] and [ital]liberation ethics[ital] [bullet] c) upholding Black women's moral struggles with race, class, and gender as an essential context to inform ethical inquiry and new possibilities for social justice. Will appeal to a board scholarly audience.

Author : Kevin Everod Quashie
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813533674

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Ultimately moves beyond these to propose a new cultural aesthetic that aims to center black women and their philosophies. Book jacket.