Interiority, Black Women, and Religious Experience
Tilling Sacred Grounds centers Black women's interiority as a site for religious experience. Phillis Isabella Sheppard argues that interiority is a site for the negotiation of gender, race, and sexuality and finds articulation in public religious practice.
In Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics, Karen Peterson-Iyer's profound feminist Christian reframing of sexuality examines contemporary social practices and ethical sex, facilitating meaningful discussion about sexual agency and flourishing.
In this book, Ofelia Miriam Ortega describes the social, economic, and political realities in Cuba, the Caribbean and Latin America as the contexts of Cuban feminist theology.
This volume challenges longstanding interpretative practices in reading the Qur'an and invites readers to discover afresh the riches and gender-egalitarian directness of the sacred text itself. The work retrieves for readers and scholars an oft-neglected tradition of encounter with Islam's scripture and teaching tradition.
Using material from fieldwork and engaging in dialogue with literature on religion and HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe, this book reviews the responses of African Initiated Churches to the pandemic. The book describes how African Independent Churches have adopted different strategies to provide effective responses to the pandemic.
Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition
Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, this work reassesses the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought.
Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition
Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of "history and tradition" ......
Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence
How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and Africa as we seek to end intimate violence in this country? The U.S. has consistently positioned ......
Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence
How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and Africa as we seek to end intimate violence in this country? The U.S. has consistently positioned ......
