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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Marcia Y. Riggs and James Samuel Logan -- 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 -- The American Constitution: its troubling religious 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 -- "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 -- 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 the improvisation in public life / Barbara A. Holmes -- Afterword / Marcia Y. Riggs and James Samuel Logan.