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  • Liberation Theologies in the United States

    An Introduction

    by Stacey M Floyd-Thomas, Anthony B Pinn ...
    Liberation Theologies in the United States reveals how the critical use of religion can be utilized to challenge and combat oppression in America.In the nascent United States, religion often functioned as a justifier of oppression. Yet while religious discourse buttressed such oppressive activities as slavery and the destruction of native populations, oppressed communities have also made use of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Altars Where We Worship

    The Religious Significance of Popular Culture

    by Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Mark G. Toulouse ...
    While a large percentage of Americans claim religious identity, the number of Americans attending traditional worship services has significantly declined in recent decades. Where, then, are Americans finding meaning in their lives, if not in the context of traditional religion? In this provocative study, the authors argue that the objects of our attention have become our god and fulfilling our ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Deeper Shades of Purple

    Womanism in Religion and Society

    Edited by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas ...
    Series series Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
    A collection of leading voices on the study of Black women in religious lifeWomanist approaches to the study of religion and society have contributed much to our understanding of Black religious life, activism, and women's liberation. Deeper Shades of Purple explores the achievements of this movement over the past two decades and evaluates some of the leading voices and different perspectives ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • When the Good Life Goes Bad

    The US and Its Seven Deadly Sins

    by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas ...
    The Seven Deadly Sins have become the seven markers of success in America. Lust, pride, greed, sloth, envy, gluttony, wrath—these once-condemned principles now guide people’s pursuit of the good life.Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas examines how the Seven Deadly Sins have shaped the moral strivings and sociopolitical condition of American society and culture in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Black Church Studies

    An Introduction

    by Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Carol B. Duncan, Stephen G. Ray JR., Nancy Lynne Westfield ...
    Religious StudiesOver the last thirty years African American voices and perspectives have become essential to the study of the various theological disciplines. Writing out of their particular position in the North American context, African American thinkers have contributed significantly to biblical studies, theology, church history, ethics, sociology of religion, homiletics, pastoral care, and a ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Walking through the Valley

    Womanist Explorations in the Spirit of Katie Geneva Cannon

    Edited by Emilie M. Townes, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Alison P. Gise-Johnson, Angela D. Sims ...
    The late Katie Geneva Cannon was the founder of womanist ethics. Her work continues to generate new explorations of womanist moral thought. In this volume, leading womanist ethicists and theologians come together to continue Cannon’s work in four critical areas: justice, leadership, embodied ethics, and sacred texts. The goal is to continue Cannon’s pursuit of a world of inclusivity and hope, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Religion, Race, and COVID-19

    Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic

    Edited by Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas ...
    Series series Religion and Social Transformation
    Examines how the dynamics emerging from the pandemic affect our most vulnerable populations and shape a new religious landscapeThe COVID-19 pandemic upset virtually every facet of society and, in many cases, exposed gross inequality and dysfunction. The particular dynamics emerging from the coronavirus pandemic have been felt most intensely by America’s most vulnerable populations, who are ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Resisting Occupation

    A Global Struggle for Liberation

    by Mark Braverman, Wanda Deifelt, Toar Hutagalung, Sindiso Jele, Junghyung Kim, Luciano Kovacs, Su-Chi Lin, Marthie Momberg, John McNeil Scott, Volker Küster, Richard A. Davis0, Miguel A. De La Torre1, Stacey Floyd-Thomas3, Mitri Raheb4, Tink Tinker6 ...
    Series series Decolonizing Theology
    In Resisting Occupation, international scholars discuss the radical denial of human flourishing caused by the occupation of mind, body, spirit, and land. They explore how religious perspectives can be, and often are, constructed by occupiers to justify their actions, perpetuate exploitation, and domesticate indigenous landholders. In the name of Christianization and civilization, which has proven ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Love, Auntie

    Parables and Prayers for Sacred Belonging

    by Shantell Hinton Hill ...
    Embrace a faith that makes room for all of us.Where can we go when the world refuses to see us in our fullness? When culture reduces us to categories and stereotypes and even our churches make us feel like we don’t fit in? If we’re blessed to have an Auntie—someone who, like Jesus, welcomes us wholly and calls us beloved—then we have glimpsed the liberation and divine affirmation of sacred ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Woke Racism

    How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

    by John McWhorter ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric.Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We’re ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Silencing White Noise

    Six Practices to Overcome Our Inaction on Race

    by Willie Francois, III ...
    ★ Publishers Weekly starred review**"A superior volume on Christian antiracism."--**Publishers WeeklyRacism is omnipresent in American life, both public and private. We are immersed in what prominent faith leader Willie Dwayne Francois III calls white noise--the racist speech, ideas, and policies that lull us into inaction on racial justice. White noise masks racial realities and prevents ... ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Prophetic Rage

    by Johnny Bernard Hill ...
    Series series Prophetic Christianity (PC)
    In this book Johnny Bernard Hill argues that prophetic rage, or righteous anger, is a necessary response to our present culture of imperialism and nihilism. The most powerful way to resist meaninglessness, he says, is refusing to accept the realities of structural injustice, such as poverty, escalating militarism, genocide, and housing discrimination.Hill's Prophetic Rage is interdisciplinary, ... Read more

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