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Society for the Study of Black Religion

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2024-2025 New Publications

Michael Fisher, confronting racism and white supremacy in the US: twenty-first century theological perspectives (friendship press, 2024)

Michael Fisher, confronting racism and white supremacy in the US: twenty-first century theological perspectives (friendship press, 2024)

Michael Fisher, confronting racism and white supremacy in the US: twenty-first century theological perspectives (friendship press, 2024)

Confronting Racism and White Supremacy in the US: Twenty-First-Century Theological Perspectives is a collection of essays on contemporary issues in the ongoing fight against racial oppression and inequality in the US. Edited by Michael R. Fisher Jr., it includes contributions from ecumenical leaders, scholars of religion, and activists wi

Confronting Racism and White Supremacy in the US: Twenty-First-Century Theological Perspectives is a collection of essays on contemporary issues in the ongoing fight against racial oppression and inequality in the US. Edited by Michael R. Fisher Jr., it includes contributions from ecumenical leaders, scholars of religion, and activists with insights about the role religion can and must play in advancing justice and equity. Originating with the Faith and Order Table of the National Council of Churches, this book offers constructive theological reflection for resisting racism and white supremacy.

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Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Underworld work: Black Atlantic religion making in jim crown New orleans(Chicago, 2024)

Michael Fisher, confronting racism and white supremacy in the US: twenty-first century theological perspectives (friendship press, 2024)

Michael Fisher, confronting racism and white supremacy in the US: twenty-first century theological perspectives (friendship press, 2024)

When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, she encountered a religious underworld, a beautiful anarchy of spiritual life. In Underworld Work, Ahmad Greene-Hayes follows Hurston on a journey through the rich tapestry of Black religious expression from emancipation through Jim Crow. He looks within and beyond the church to recover the

When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, she encountered a religious underworld, a beautiful anarchy of spiritual life. In Underworld Work, Ahmad Greene-Hayes follows Hurston on a journey through the rich tapestry of Black religious expression from emancipation through Jim Crow. He looks within and beyond the church to recover the diverse leadership of migrants, healers, dissidents, and queer people who transformed their marginalized homes, bars, and street corners into sacred space.  Greene-Hayes shows how, while enclosed within an anti-black world, these outcasts embraced Africana esotericisms—ancestral veneration, faith healing, spiritualized sex work, and more—to conjure a connection to freer worlds past and yet to come.

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Raymond Carr: Theology in the Mode of Monk: Am Aesthetics of Barth and cone on revelation and freedom (Cascade 2024)

Michael Fisher, confronting racism and white supremacy in the US: twenty-first century theological perspectives (friendship press, 2024)

Melanie Jones Quarles: Up Against a Crooked Gospel: Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption (Orbis, 2024)

This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian who constructed his theology “from above” and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H. Cone, the father of Black Theology in America, who constructed his theology “from belo

This captivating study engages two of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century: Karl Barth, the Swiss Protestant theologian who constructed his theology “from above” and engaged the powers in the background of Nazi Germany, and James H. Cone, the father of Black Theology in America, who constructed his theology “from below” and confronted white racism—the most intractable issue in America’s history. In this three-volume project, Carr employs the aesthetic thinking of the jazz legend Thelonious Monk to reconceptualize, restructure, and advance the theologies of Barth and Cone. This first volume appeals to the Bebop tune “Epistrophy” as the analogical framework for (re)conceptualizing the historical form and hermeneutical backgrounds of Karl Barth and James H. Cone.

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Melanie Jones Quarles: Up Against a Crooked Gospel: Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption (Orbis, 2024)

Michael Fisher, confronting racism and white supremacy in the US: twenty-first century theological perspectives (friendship press, 2024)

Melanie Jones Quarles: Up Against a Crooked Gospel: Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption (Orbis, 2024)

Drawing upon her grandmother's personal struggles with physical "bendedness" and the narrative of the bent woman in Luke 13:10-17, Melanie Jones Quarles engages Black religious thought and cultural criticism to expose how the Black Church paradoxically nurtures Black women while also sustaining their oppression. Quarles mines the propheti

Drawing upon her grandmother's personal struggles with physical "bendedness" and the narrative of the bent woman in Luke 13:10-17, Melanie Jones Quarles engages Black religious thought and cultural criticism to expose how the Black Church paradoxically nurtures Black women while also sustaining their oppression. Quarles mines the prophetic imaginations of influential womanist thinkers, crafting a liberating vision that resists serving as surrogate "saviors" in society and religion. 

With insights into politics, Christology, and biblical interpretation, this book boldly calls Black women to unbend their bodies and reclaim their moral agency in the face of crooked systems that attempt to constrain their freedom.

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2024/2025 New Publications

Tamura Lomax: Freeing Black girls: A Black feminist Bible on racism and revolutionary mothering (Duke, 2025)

Juan M. FLoyd-Thomas, Critical Race Theology: White Supremacy, American Christianity, and the Ongoing Culture Wars (Orbis, 2024)

In Freeing Black Girls, Tamura Lomax offers an insurgent feminist love letter to Black girls, women, mothers, and othermothers. Exploring what it means to mother Black children in the twenty-first century, Lomax shares her journey from her traditionalist Black girlhood to finding the path to revolutionary Black motherhood. Along the way, 

In Freeing Black Girls, Tamura Lomax offers an insurgent feminist love letter to Black girls, women, mothers, and othermothers. Exploring what it means to mother Black children in the twenty-first century, Lomax shares her journey from her traditionalist Black girlhood to finding the path to revolutionary Black motherhood. Along the way, she shows how all Black people are endangered by white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchal dominance and emphasizes the power of looking and talking back. Lomax insists on Black feminist ways of living that value and nourish whole persons, sketching a radical dream that will allow Black women and girls to survive America while being able to love themselves, others, and collective Black freedom.

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Juan M. FLoyd-Thomas, Critical Race Theology: White Supremacy, American Christianity, and the Ongoing Culture Wars (Orbis, 2024)

Juan M. FLoyd-Thomas, Critical Race Theology: White Supremacy, American Christianity, and the Ongoing Culture Wars (Orbis, 2024)

In Critical Race Theology Juan Floyd-Thomas examines the entangled roots of white supremacy, white Christian nationalism, and the raging culture wars in America. In this provocative and courageous work Floyd-Thomas charts a path for a revitalized social gospel for the 21st century.

Drawing insights from critical race theory, Black liberati

In Critical Race Theology Juan Floyd-Thomas examines the entangled roots of white supremacy, white Christian nationalism, and the raging culture wars in America. In this provocative and courageous work Floyd-Thomas charts a path for a revitalized social gospel for the 21st century.

Drawing insights from critical race theory, Black liberation theology, and prophetic Christianity, Floyd-Thomas proposes “critical race theology” as a framework to confront racism, exclusion, and oppression within American Christianity and society. Challenging the self-righteous distortions of conservatives, he calls on clergy and believers to truly embody the liberating spirit of Jesus's radical ethic of love.


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Wilda C. Gafney,A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church Year C (Church Publishing, 2024)

In this third volume of a three-volume lectionary, widely praised womanist bible scholar and priest Wilda Gafney selects scripture readings that emphasize women's stories. Focusing especially on the Gospel of Luke, Year C of A Women's Lectionary features Gafney's fresh, inclusive, and thought-provoking translations of every reading, along

In this third volume of a three-volume lectionary, widely praised womanist bible scholar and priest Wilda Gafney selects scripture readings that emphasize women's stories. Focusing especially on the Gospel of Luke, Year C of A Women's Lectionary features Gafney's fresh, inclusive, and thought-provoking translations of every reading, alongside commentary on each reading. Designed for liturgical use or scriptural study, this resource offers a new perspective on the Bible and the liturgical year.

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Wilda C. Gafney,Womanist Midrash, Volume 2: A Reintroduction to the Women of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings (Westminster John Knox Pess, 2024)

This volume focuses on women and girls in Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. As in her successful and widely read first volume, Gafney uses her own translations and offers midrashic interpretations of the biblical text rooted in the African American preaching and rabbinic traditions to tell the stories of a variety of female characters, m

This volume focuses on women and girls in Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. As in her successful and widely read first volume, Gafney uses her own translations and offers midrashic interpretations of the biblical text rooted in the African American preaching and rabbinic traditions to tell the stories of a variety of female characters, many of whom are often overlooked and nameless. Grounded in rigorous scholarship, this volume employs solid womanist and feminist approaches to biblical interpretation and the sociohistorical culture of the ancient Afro-Asiatic world, expanding conversations of and about biblical interpretation.Pre-Order here: Gafney

Recent Member Publications

Anthony Pinn, The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of black Nonbelievers (BEacon press, 20224)

Anthony Pinn, The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of black Nonbelievers (BEacon press, 20224)

Anthony Pinn, The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of black Nonbelievers (BEacon press, 20224)

What does it mean to be a Black humanist? What do Black humanist believe, and what do they do? This slim volume answers these questions. Animated by 6 central principles, and discussed in terms of its history, practices, formations, and community rituals, this book argues that Black humanism can be understood as a religious movement. Pinn

What does it mean to be a Black humanist? What do Black humanist believe, and what do they do? This slim volume answers these questions. Animated by 6 central principles, and discussed in terms of its history, practices, formations, and community rituals, this book argues that Black humanism can be understood as a religious movement. Pinn makes a distinction between theism and religion—which is simply a tool for examining, naming, and finding the meaning in human experience.


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JEnnifer s. leath, black, quare, and then: theories of justice and black sexual ethics (duke, 2023)

Anthony Pinn, The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of black Nonbelievers (BEacon press, 20224)

Anthony Pinn, The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of black Nonbelievers (BEacon press, 20224)

In Black, Quare, and Then to Where jennifer susanne leath explores the relationship between Afrodiasporic theories of justice and Black sexual ethics through a womanist engagement with Maât the ancient Egyptian deity of justice and truth. Maât took into account the historical and cultural context of each human’s life, thus encompassing nu

In Black, Quare, and Then to Where jennifer susanne leath explores the relationship between Afrodiasporic theories of justice and Black sexual ethics through a womanist engagement with Maât the ancient Egyptian deity of justice and truth. Maât took into account the historical and cultural context of each human’s life, thus encompassing nuances of politics, race, gender, and sexuality. Arguing that Maât should serve as a foundation for reconfiguring Black sexual ethics, leath applies ancient Egyptian moral codes to quare ethics of the erotic, expanding what relationships and democratic practices might look like from a contemporary Maâtian perspective.


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Yolanda Pierce, The wounds are the witness: black faith weaving memory into justice and healing (broadleaf book, 2025)

Anthony Pinn, The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of black Nonbelievers (BEacon press, 20224)

Yolanda Pierce, The wounds are the witness: black faith weaving memory into justice and healing (broadleaf book, 2025)

In The Wounds Are the Witness, Yolanda Pierce, dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School and author of In My Grandmother's House, weaves together her own memories, vignettes from Black life, and scenes from scripture, especially the passion of Christ. To work for liberation in a broken world, we cannot look away from crucified flesh. 

In The Wounds Are the Witness, Yolanda Pierce, dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School and author of In My Grandmother's House, weaves together her own memories, vignettes from Black life, and scenes from scripture, especially the passion of Christ. To work for liberation in a broken world, we cannot look away from crucified flesh. Bones from the Middle Passage, GI Bill benefits denied to Black veterans, women inmates shackled while giving birth: we must take all such wounds seriously. They testify to both the pain and the faith of a people.


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A Misrepresented people: manhood in black religious thought (NYU Press, 2025)

Anthony Pinn, The Black Practice of Disbelief: An Introduction to the Principles, History, and Communities of black Nonbelievers (BEacon press, 20224)

Yolanda Pierce, The wounds are the witness: black faith weaving memory into justice and healing (broadleaf book, 2025)

Although much Black religious scholarship has engaged with feminist theory and womanist thought, a gap remains where little work has been done in religious studies to investigate the Black male experience. A Misrepresented People explores how African American men grapple with identity and masculinity in relation to Black religious thought

Although much Black religious scholarship has engaged with feminist theory and womanist thought, a gap remains where little work has been done in religious studies to investigate the Black male experience. A Misrepresented People explores how African American men grapple with identity and masculinity in relation to Black religious thought. This book counters the dominant portrayal of Black men in American society as suspicious, morally defective, and irredeemable, and showcases the strength and relevance of Black religious thought in developing alternative notions of Black manhood.


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Recent and Forthcoming Member Publications

lorena parrish, we have plenty: a womanist theology of communal abundance for the black church (fortress press, 2025)

Andre johnson and amanda nell edgar, eds., The summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black lives matter movement (university of Mississippi press, 2024)

Andre johnson and amanda nell edgar, eds., The summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black lives matter movement (university of Mississippi press, 2024)

What does it mean to be a Black humanist? What do Black humanist believe, and what do they do? This slim volume answers these questions. Animated by 6 central principles, and discussed in terms of its history, practices, formations, and community rituals, this book argues that Black humanism can be understood as a religious movement. Pinn

What does it mean to be a Black humanist? What do Black humanist believe, and what do they do? This slim volume answers these questions. Animated by 6 central principles, and discussed in terms of its history, practices, formations, and community rituals, this book argues that Black humanism can be understood as a religious movement. Pinn makes a distinction between theism and religion—which is simply a tool for examining, naming, and finding the meaning in human experience.


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Andre johnson and amanda nell edgar, eds., The summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black lives matter movement (university of Mississippi press, 2024)

Andre johnson and amanda nell edgar, eds., The summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black lives matter movement (university of Mississippi press, 2024)

Andre johnson and amanda nell edgar, eds., The summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black lives matter movement (university of Mississippi press, 2024)

The Summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement spotlights the perspectives of individual participants who contributed to the movement’s revived impact and global success throughout 2020. Authors Andre E. Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar interview the movement’s activists—from seasoned organizers to fir

The Summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement spotlights the perspectives of individual participants who contributed to the movement’s revived impact and global success throughout 2020. Authors Andre E. Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar interview the movement’s activists—from seasoned organizers to first-time protesters—to discover what Black Lives Matter meant to those who participated in one of America’s largest social movements. 


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Recent Member Publications

Annmarie Mingo, Have you Got Good Religion?, University of Illinois, 2024

Danjuma G. Gibson, Through the eyes of titans: finding courage to redeem the soul of a nation (cascade, 2024)

Sarah F. Farmer, Restorative Hope: Creating Pathwys of Connectionin Women's Prisons (Eerdmans, 2024)

 What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit her? The thousands of Black Churchwomen who took part in civil rights protests drew on faith, courage, and moral imagination to acquire the lived experiences at the heart of the answers to that question. AnneMarie Mingo brings

 What compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit her? The thousands of Black Churchwomen who took part in civil rights protests drew on faith, courage, and moral imagination to acquire the lived experiences at the heart of the answers to that question. AnneMarie Mingo brings these forgotten witnesses into the historical narrative
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Sarah F. Farmer, Restorative Hope: Creating Pathwys of Connectionin Women's Prisons (Eerdmans, 2024)

Danjuma G. Gibson, Through the eyes of titans: finding courage to redeem the soul of a nation (cascade, 2024)

Sarah F. Farmer, Restorative Hope: Creating Pathwys of Connectionin Women's Prisons (Eerdmans, 2024)

Sarah F. Farmer amplifies the voices of women who are or have been incarcerated to learn what supports their flourishing. Combining theology and sociology, Farmer shows how theological education can help cultivate the resilience and connection that women describe as life-giving in and after prison. Based in her own ministry, this pedagogy

Sarah F. Farmer amplifies the voices of women who are or have been incarcerated to learn what supports their flourishing. Combining theology and sociology, Farmer shows how theological education can help cultivate the resilience and connection that women describe as life-giving in and after prison. Based in her own ministry, this pedagogy incorporates artistic expression and critical thinking about justice to cultivate agency. 
 

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Almeda Wright,Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change (OUP, 2024).

Danjuma G. Gibson, Through the eyes of titans: finding courage to redeem the soul of a nation (cascade, 2024)

Danjuma G. Gibson, Through the eyes of titans: finding courage to redeem the soul of a nation (cascade, 2024)

Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change interrogates the stories of African American activist-educators whose faith convictions inspired them to educate in radical and transformative ways. Many of these educators are known only or primarily for their educational theory or activism, and their religio

Teaching to Live: Black Religion, Activist-Educators, and Radical Social Change interrogates the stories of African American activist-educators whose faith convictions inspired them to educate in radical and transformative ways. Many of these educators are known only or primarily for their educational theory or activism, and their religious convictions have often been obscured or outright ignored. Almeda M. Wright seeks to rectify this omission, exploring the connections between religion, education, and struggles for freedom within twentieth-century African American communities by telling the stories of key African American teachers.


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Danjuma G. Gibson, Through the eyes of titans: finding courage to redeem the soul of a nation (cascade, 2024)

Danjuma G. Gibson, Through the eyes of titans: finding courage to redeem the soul of a nation (cascade, 2024)

Danjuma G. Gibson, Through the eyes of titans: finding courage to redeem the soul of a nation (cascade, 2024)

This book seeks to humanize people we have idealized. Readers are invited to challenge racial hatred and injustice in their own context by looking to the lives of historical figures who have faced the challenges we currently face. By examining the self-care practices of personalities like Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Benjamin Elijah Ma

This book seeks to humanize people we have idealized. Readers are invited to challenge racial hatred and injustice in their own context by looking to the lives of historical figures who have faced the challenges we currently face. By examining the self-care practices of personalities like Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Benjamin Elijah Mays, and Martin Luther King Jr., this book examines the practices of introspection and self-work these historical figures engaged in that enabled them to fulfill the body of work they are celebrated for today.


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Recent Member Publications

Leonard McKinnis, The Black Coptic Church (NYU, 2023)

Joshua Bartholomew, Black Theology and the black panthers (L

The Black Coptic Church offers a look at a group that insisted on its own understanding of its divine Blackness. In the process, it provides a more complex look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, particularly within non-mainstream Christian churches.


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Joshua Bartholomew, Black Theology and the black panthers (L

Joshua Bartholomew, Black Theology and the black panthers (L

In Black Theology and The Black Panthers, Joshua S. Bartholomew deals with the relationship between economic justice and racial equality. By examining the economic philosophies and inter-communal survival programs of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense from 1967-1971, Bartholomew utilizes a Womanist methodology to connect the praxis 

In Black Theology and The Black Panthers, Joshua S. Bartholomew deals with the relationship between economic justice and racial equality. By examining the economic philosophies and inter-communal survival programs of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense from 1967-1971, Bartholomew utilizes a Womanist methodology to connect the praxis of The Panthers with priorities of Black Theological Ethics. 

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Oluwatomisin Oredein, the Theology of Mercy oduyoye (Notre Dame, 2023)

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Oduyoye’s life and work, providing a much-needed corrective to Eurocentric, colonial, and patriarchal theologies by centering the experiences of African women as a starting point from which theological reflection might begin.


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Stephen Finley, In & Out of this World(Duke, 2022)

With In and Out of This World Stephen C. Finley examines the religious practices and discourses that have shaped the Nation of Islam (NOI) in America. 


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Recent Member Publications

Stephanie Buckhannon Crowder, Are you for real? imposter syndrome, the bible, and society (Cascade, 2023)

Stephanie Buckhannon Crowder, Are you for real? imposter syndrome, the bible, and society (Cascade, 2023)

Stephanie Buckhannon Crowder, Are you for real? imposter syndrome, the bible, and society (Cascade, 2023)

Are You for Real? is a groundbreaking work that places imposter syndrome, the Bible, and society at the same table. In this project Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder addresses the shadow of facade and fake feeling that pervade not only women, but men and non-binary persons in various ways. Matters of racism, sexism, classism, and gender come to

Are You for Real? is a groundbreaking work that places imposter syndrome, the Bible, and society at the same table. In this project Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder addresses the shadow of facade and fake feeling that pervade not only women, but men and non-binary persons in various ways. Matters of racism, sexism, classism, and gender come to the forefront as the author engages imposter syndrome through the lens of biblical texts. 

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Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Remapping Biblica Studies (SBL Press, 2023)

Stephanie Buckhannon Crowder, Are you for real? imposter syndrome, the bible, and society (Cascade, 2023)

Stephanie Buckhannon Crowder, Are you for real? imposter syndrome, the bible, and society (Cascade, 2023)

This volume celebrates the thirty years of service of SBL’s Committee on Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession (CUREMP), a vital body in SBL dedicated to advancing the representation and work of racial and ethnic minoritized scholars in biblical studies. The volume includes the presidential addresses of groundbreaking scholars.


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Monique Moultrie, Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership (duke, 2023)

Stephanie Buckhannon Crowder, Are you for real? imposter syndrome, the bible, and society (Cascade, 2023)

Monique Moultrie, Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership (duke, 2023)

In Hidden Histories, Monique Moultrie collects oral histories of Black lesbian religious leaders in the United States to show how their authenticity, social justice awareness, spirituality, and collaborative leadership make them models of womanist ethical leadership.

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Stephanie Buckhannon Crowder, Are you for real? imposter syndrome, the bible, and society (Cascade, 2023)

Monique Moultrie, Hidden Histories: Faith and Black Lesbian Leadership (duke, 2023)

In this second volume of the three-volume Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, widely praised womanist bible scholar and priest Wil Gafney selects scripture readings that emphasize women's stories. 

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Recent Member Publications

Courtney Bryant, Erotic Defiance (Fortress, 2023)

BRAD BRAXTON AND ANTHONY PINN, A MASTER CLASS ON BEING HUMAN (BEACON PRESS, 2023)

Mitzi J. Smith, Chloe & Her People (Cascade, 2023)

Erotic Defiance considers the sacred and transformative power of the flesh through investigating the ethical and theological dimensions of the erotic experiences of Black women and performances of Black womanhood. 

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Mitzi J. Smith, Chloe & Her People (Cascade, 2023)

BRAD BRAXTON AND ANTHONY PINN, A MASTER CLASS ON BEING HUMAN (BEACON PRESS, 2023)

Mitzi J. Smith, Chloe & Her People (Cascade, 2023)

Chloe and Her People offers an Africana Womanist reading of First Corinthians that privileges the knowledge, experiences, histories, traditions, voices, and artifacts of Black women and the Black community that challenge or dissent from Paul’s rhetorical epistemic constructions. 

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Mitzi Smith and Michael Willett Newheart, We are all Witnesses (Cascade, 2023)

BRAD BRAXTON AND ANTHONY PINN, A MASTER CLASS ON BEING HUMAN (BEACON PRESS, 2023)

BRAD BRAXTON AND ANTHONY PINN, A MASTER CLASS ON BEING HUMAN (BEACON PRESS, 2023)

Smith and Newheart have produced a groundbreaking milestone book about how to do biblical interpretation that prioritizes justice and the reader's context. It is both memoir and metatestimony! Order Here

BRAD BRAXTON AND ANTHONY PINN, A MASTER CLASS ON BEING HUMAN (BEACON PRESS, 2023)

BRAD BRAXTON AND ANTHONY PINN, A MASTER CLASS ON BEING HUMAN (BEACON PRESS, 2023)

BRAD BRAXTON AND ANTHONY PINN, A MASTER CLASS ON BEING HUMAN (BEACON PRESS, 2023)

A conversation between 2 eminent Black thinkers on how to work together to make the world a better place despite deep religious differences. 


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Keri Day, Azusa Reimagined (Stanford, 2022)

Mitzi J. Smith, ANgela N. Parker, ERicka S. Dunbar Hill, eds., Bitter the Chastening Rod (Fortress, 2023)

n Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.S. Pentecostalism emerged, directly critiqued America's distorted capitalist values and practices at the start of the twentieth century.


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Mitzi J. Smith, ANgela N. Parker, ERicka S. Dunbar Hill, eds., Bitter the Chastening Rod (Fortress, 2023)

Mitzi J. Smith, ANgela N. Parker, ERicka S. Dunbar Hill, eds., Bitter the Chastening Rod (Fortress, 2023)

Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the enslaved, and whitened interpretations of the enslaved. They present pedagogical strategies for teaching, hermeneutics, and bible translation that center Black Lives Matter and black culture.


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R. Drew Smith, Stephanie C. Boddie, and Bertis D. English, RACIALIZEd Health, COVID-19, and Religion Responses_

R. Drew Smith, Stephanie C. Boddie, and Bertis D. English, RACIALIZEd Health, COVID-19, and Religion Responses_

Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses: Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives explores black religious responses to black health concerns amidst persistent race-based health disparities and healthcare inequities. 


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Stacy Floyd Thomas, Ed., Religion, Race, and COVID-19 (NYU, 2022)

R. Drew Smith, Stephanie C. Boddie, and Bertis D. English, RACIALIZEd Health, COVID-19, and Religion Responses_

This book makes the case that the pandemic was not just a medical phenomenon, or an economic or social one, but also a religious one. Religious practice has been altered in profound ways. 


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New Memeber Publications

JEremy Williams, Criminalization in Acts of the Apostles (Oxford, 2023)

Andre E. Johnson, The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (University of Mississippi, 2023)

Nancy Lynne Westfield, Glimpses of Me and Mine (REsource Publications, 2023)

In this study, Jeremy L. Williams interrogates the Book of Acts in an effort to understand how early Christian texts provide glimpses of the legal processes by which Roman officials and militarized police criminalized, prosecuted, and incarcerated people in the first and second centuries CE. 


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Nancy Lynne Westfield, Glimpses of Me and Mine (REsource Publications, 2023)

Andre E. Johnson, The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (University of Mississippi, 2023)

Nancy Lynne Westfield, Glimpses of Me and Mine (REsource Publications, 2023)

 This collection of fiction and creative non-fiction as prayers, poems, short stories, rants, recollections, fantasies, aspirations, divulgences of secrets, accounts of omitted truths, and interpretations of witnessed miracles is meant to add Nancy Lynne Westfield’s voice to the stories about African American women by African American women. 

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Andre E. Johnson, The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (University of Mississippi, 2023)

Andre E. Johnson, The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (University of Mississippi, 2023)

Andre E. Johnson, The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (University of Mississippi, 2023)

In The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, the Platform, and the Pulpit, Andre E. Johnson has compiled selected political speeches, sermons, lectures, and religious addresses delivered by Turner in their original form

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J. Kameron Carter, The anarchy of black religion (duke, 2023)

Andre E. Johnson, The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (University of Mississippi, 2023)

Andre E. Johnson, The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (University of Mississippi, 2023)

In The Anarchy of Black Religion, J. Kameron Carter examines the deeper philosophical, theological, and religious history that animates our times to advance a new approach to understanding religion. Drawing on the black radical tradition and black feminism, Carter explores the modern invention of religion as central to settler colonial ra

In The Anarchy of Black Religion, J. Kameron Carter examines the deeper philosophical, theological, and religious history that animates our times to advance a new approach to understanding religion. Drawing on the black radical tradition and black feminism, Carter explores the modern invention of religion as central to settler colonial racial technologies wherein antiblackness is a founding and guiding religious principle of the modern world.


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Terrence Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau, Blacks and Jews in America (Georgetown, 2022)

A Black-Jewish dialogue lifts a veil on these groups' unspoken history, shedding light on the challenges and promises facing American democracy from its inception to the present. 


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Phillis Sheppard, Tilling Sacred grounds (Lexington, 2022)

Tilling Sacred Grounds examines Black women’s interiority and negotiation of race, gender, and sexuality in religious spaces and religious practices.non-mainstream Christian churches.


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TRACEY E. HUCKS, OBEAH, ORISA & RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN TRINIDAD, VOL.1 (DUKE, 2022)

Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present.


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Dianne M. Stewart, OBEAH, ORISA & RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN TRINIDAD, VOL.2 (DUKE, 2022)

Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present.


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Andre Johnson, Kimberly P. Johnson, and Wallis C. Baxter, III, Preaching during a pandemic, v. 1, Peter Lang Press, 2023

Andre Johnson, Kimberly P. Johnson, and Wallis C. Baxter, III, Preaching during a pandemic, v. 1, Peter Lang Press, 2023

Andre Johnson, Kimberly P. Johnson, and Wallis C. Baxter, III, Preaching during a pandemic, v. 1, Peter Lang Press, 2023

Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Traditionis a two-volume collection of sermons from those who preach within the Black preaching tradition during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ANDRE JOHNSON, KIMBERLY P. JOHNSON, AND WALLIS C. BAXTER, III, PREACHING DURING A PANDEMIC, V. 1, PETER LANG PRESS, 2023

Andre Johnson, Kimberly P. Johnson, and Wallis C. Baxter, III, Preaching during a pandemic, v. 1, Peter Lang Press, 2023

Andre Johnson, Kimberly P. Johnson, and Wallis C. Baxter, III, Preaching during a pandemic, v. 1, Peter Lang Press, 2023

Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Traditionis a two-volume collection of sermons from those who preach within the Black preaching tradition during the COVID-19 pandemic.


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Lisa M. BowensR. Edwards, eds., Do Black Lives Matter? (Cascade, 2023)

Andre Johnson, Kimberly P. Johnson, and Wallis C. Baxter, III, Preaching during a pandemic, v. 1, Peter Lang Press, 2023

Lisa M. BowensR. Edwards, eds., Do Black Lives Matter? (Cascade, 2023)

In this book Lisa Bowens and Dennis R. Edwards collate a virtual manifesto on the way the Bible serves as inspiration, theological grist, and even the language needed to be the change to people of good faith everywhere.


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Jawanza Eric Clark, Reclaiming Stolen Earth (Orbis, 2022)

eclaiming Stolen Earth demonstrates how the crisis of global climate change, like so many social crises, is an outgrowth of the most consequential problem of the modern era: the problem of "whiteness."

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Noel Leon Erskine, Black Theology & Black Faith (Eerdmans, 2023)

In this concise yet thorough volume, Noel Leo Erskine examines Black theology from every angle, seeking to answer the question, Why would Africa’s children turn to the God of their oppressors for liberation?


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