Womanist theological ethics : a reader / edited by Katie Geneva Cannon, Emilie M. Townes, and Angela D. Sims.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Racism and economics : the perspective of Oliver C. Cox / Katie Geneva Cannon -- What do nineteenth-century reformers have to say to twentieth-century liberationists? / Marcia Riggs -- Ethics as an art of doing the work our souls must have / Emilie M. Townes -- Re-reading for liberation : African American women and the Bible / Renita J. Weems -- How women relate to the evils of nature / Karen Baker-Fletcher -- The "loves" and "troubles" of African-American women's bodies : the womanist challenge to cultural humiliation and community ambivalence / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Body, representation, and Black religious discourse / M. Shawn Copeland -- Black and blues : God-talk/body-talk for the Black church / Kelly Brown Douglas -- "Wading through many sorrows" : toward a theology of suffering in a womanist perspective / M. Shawn Copeland -- More than suffering : the healing and resurrecting Spirit of God / Karen Baker-Fletcher -- To be called beloved : womanist ontology in postmodern refraction / Emilie M. Townes -- The issue of race and lynching / Angela D. Sims -- "Go and tell Mary and Martha" : the spirituals, biblical options for women, and cultural tensions in the African American religious experience / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Unearthing ethical treasures : the intrusive markers of social class / Katie Geneva Cannon -- Living as religious ethical mediators : a vocation for people of faith in the twenty-first century / Marcia Riggs -- Re-orientation : viewing justice in a racially violent world / Angela D. Sims.