Ethics that matters : African, Caribbean, and African American sources /

Other Authors: Riggs, Marcia,, Logan, James Samuel,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Moral Dilemmas :
  • 1. Maps of meaning : Black bodies and African spirituality as African diaspora trope / Anthony B. Pinn
  • 2. Homecoming in the hinterlands : ethical ministries of mission in Nigeria / Katie Geneva Cannon
  • 3. Women in Rastafari / Noel Leo ERskine
  • 4. Religious pluralism in Africa : insights from Ifa divination poetry
  • Part II. Moral Community :
  • 5. The American constitution : its troubling relligious and ethical paradox for Blacks / Riggins R. Earl Jr.
  • 6. The challenge of race : a theological reflection / James H. Cone
  • 7. Race, religion, and the race for the White House / Dwight N. Hopkins
  • Part III. Moral Discourse :
  • 8. "Who is their God?" : a critique of the church based on the Kingian prophetic model / Lewis V. Baldwin
  • 9. Onward, Christian soldiers! : race, religion, and nationalism in post-civil rights America / Jonathan L. Walton
  • 10. Overcoming Christianization : reconciling spiritual and intellectual resources in African American Christianity / Rosetta E. Ross
  • 11. A moral epistemology of gender violence / Traci C. West
  • Part IV. Moral Vision :
  • 12. An ecowomanist vision / Melanie L. Harris
  • 13. An American public theology in the absence of giants : creative conflict and democratic longings / Victor Anderson
  • 14. Walking on the rimbones of nothingness : embodied scholarship for those of us way down under the sun / Emilie M. Townes
  • 15. Still on the journey : moral witness, imagination, and improvisation in public life / Barbara A. Holmes.