Walking through the valley : womanist explorations in the spirit of Katie Geneva Cannon /
Emilie M. Townes, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Alison P. Gise Johnson, and Angela D. Sims, editors.
- First edition.
- xviii, 198 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-191) and index.
Foreword / by Nikky Finney -- Part 1. Unearthing the sacred from our own texts. The biblical field's loss was womanist ethics' gain: Katie Cannon and the dilemma of the womanist intellectual / Renita J. Weems -- Unearthing the ethical treasures of Cannon formation / Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas -- The house that Cannon built and "the hinges upon which the future swings" / Melanie C. Jones -- Part 2. Structural poverty and Black communal sovereignty. Redeeming Black survival: a womanist reading of poverty as a means of re-membering Black sovereignty / Alison P. Gise Johnson -- Excavating darkness: unearthing memories as spiritual practice in the service of social transformation / Alison P. Gise Johnson and Vanessa Monroe -- Rooted woman or root woman: one Black woman's story at the intersection of earth, faith, and action / Faith B. Harris -- Part 3. Womanist ways of leading. Walking through the valley: a leadership exemplar / Paula Owens Parker -- Even when one's face is on fire: a womanist approach to leadership / Angela D. Sims -- "Not meant to survive": Black mothers leading beyond the criminal line / Nikia Smith Robert -- Part 4. Embodied ethics. "Pumping up air": toward a womanist epistemology of Black choreography / Eboni Marshall Turman -- Knowledge from the marrow of our bones: a talk / Emilie M. Townes -- A Can(n)on of embodied ethics / M. Shawn Copeland.
"In this volume, leading womanist ethicists and theologians come together to continue Katie Geneva Cannon's work in four critical areas: justice, leadership, embodied ethics, and sacred texts"--