Description
Book SynopsisMoved by the Spirit: Religion and the Movement for Black Lives explores the religious and theological significance of the Black Lives Matter Movement. The volume argues for engaging the complex ways religion is present in the movement as well as how the movement is changing religion. The contributors analyze this relationship from a variety of religious and theological perspectives on public protest, the meaning of freedom, Black humanity, the arts and practices of Black religious culture, and the transformation of Black religious communities. The volume reveals that the Movement for Black Lives is changing our understanding of religious experience and communities.
Table of ContentsForeword, Emilie Townes
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Teresa L. Smallwood and Christophe D. Ringer
Part One: Black Public Theology
Chapter One: “Today is Not My Day to Die”: Public Theology, Precarious Lives, and the Politics of the Streets, Michael Brandon McCormack and Stachelle Bussey
Chapter Two: Black Lives Matter: A Black Theological Hauntology, Charlene Sinclair
Chapter Three: Their Words Became Flesh, Teresa L. Smallwood
Chapter Four: We Gon’ Be Alright: Public Theology, Subjectivity and Experiencing the Sacred in the Movement for Black Lives, Christophe D. Ringer
Part Two: Black Humanity
Chapter Five: Self-Amending Blackness and The Movement for Black Lives: Justice and Leadership in Liberatory Spaces, Forrest E. Harris
Chapter Six: On In(Visibilities), José Francisco Morales Torres
Chapter Seven: The Emergence of the Black Buddhist Radical Tradition, Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Rima Vesely-Flad
Part Three: Black Churches
Chapter Eight: The Black Church Movement Profile is Dead: The Audacious Absurdity of Transgressive Imagination Between “The American Dream” and the Nightemare, Tamura Lomax
Chapter Nine: Walk Together Children: Lessons in Unity, Leah D. Daughtry
Chapter Ten: Slain…in the Spirit: A Black Womanist Pneumatological Aesthetic of the Movement for Black Lives, Eboni Marshall Turman
Part Four: Black Religious Culture
Chapter Eleven: Preaching Wholeness for Black Lives, Debra Mumford
Chapter Twelve: Envisioning Justice Beyond Resistance: Black Lives Matter & Aretha Franklin’s “Mary Don’t You Weep”, Herbert R. Marbury
Chapter Thirteen: Keeping the Waters Troubled for a Better Day: A Dialectic of Resistance and Restoration in the Movement for Black Lives, Scott C. Williamson
Part Five: Bearing Witness for Black Lives
Chapter Fourteen: “My God is Black, My God is Female”: Rhetoric, Race and the Spirituality of Black Lives Matter, Andre E. Johnson
Chapter Fifteen: An Epistle on Ferguson, Osagyefo Sekou
Chapter Sixteen: Reading the Fine Print: Evaluating our Commitment to All Black Lives, Leslie Callahan
Chapter Seventeen: A Call to Heal, Traci Blackmon
Afterword, Victor Anderson
Index
About the Contributors
