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Ethics that matters [electronic resource] : African, Caribbean, and African American sources / Marcia Y. Riggs and James Samuel Logan, editors.

Contributor(s): Riggs, Marcia | Logan, James Samuel
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781451413489; 1451413483Subject(s): Christian ethics | Social ethics | BlacksGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: JSTOR Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and indexes.
Contents:
Moral Dilemmas : -- Maps of meaning : Black bodies and African spirituality as African diaspora trope / Anthony B. Pinn -- Homecoming in the hinterlands : ethical ministries of mission in Nigeria / Katie Geneva Cannon -- Women in Rastafari / Noel Leo Erskine -- Religious pluralism in Africa : insights from Ifa divination poetry / Jacob K. Olupona -- Moral Community : -- The American constitution : its troubling relligious and ethical paradox for Blacks / Riggins R. Earl Jr. -- The challenge of race : a theological reflection / James H. Cone -- Race, religion, and the race for the White House / Dwight N. Hopkins -- Moral Discourse : -- "Who is their God?" : a critique of the church based on the Kingian prophetic model / Lewis V. Baldwin -- Onward, Christian soldiers! : race, religion, and nationalism in post-civil rights America / Jonathan L. Walton -- Overcoming Christianization : reconciling spiritual and intellectual resources in African American Christianity / Rosetta E. Ross -- A moral epistemology of gender violence / Traci C. West -- Moral Vision : -- An ecowomanist vision / Melanie L. Harris -- An American public theology in the absence of giants : creative conflict and democratic longings / Victor Anderson -- Walking on the rimbones of nothingness : embodied scholarship for those of us way down under the sun / Emilie M. Townes -- Still on the journey : moral witness, imagination, and improvisation in public life / Barbara A. Holmes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-262) and indexes.

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 / Jacob K. Olupona -- 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.

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