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v Contents Contributors vii Introduction 1 Marcia Y. Riggs and James Samuel Logan Part One: Moral Dilemmas 1. Maps of Meaning: Black Bodies and African Spirituality as African Diaspora Trope 11 Anthony B. Pinn 2. Homecoming in the Hinterlands: Ethical Ministries of Mission in Nigeria 23 Katie Geneva Cannon 3. Women in Rastafari 37 Noel Leo Erskine 4. Religious Pluralism in Africa: Insights from Ifa Divination Poetry 51 Jacob K. Olupona For Reflection and Study 59 Part Two: Moral Community 5. The American Constitution: Its Troubling Religious and Ethical Paradox for Blacks 63 Riggins R. Earl Jr. 6. The Challenge of Race: A Theological Reflection 77 James H. Cone 7. Race, Religion, and the Race for the White House 99 Dwight N. Hopkins For Reflection and Study 121 Contents vi Part Three: Moral Discourse 8. “Who Is Their God?” A Critique of the Church Based on the Kingian Prophetic Model 125 Lewis V. Baldwin 9. Onward, Christian Soldiers! Race, Religion, and Nationalism in Post–Civil Rights America 139 Jonathan L. Walton 10. Overcoming Christianization: Reconciling Spiritual and Intellectual Resources in African American Christianity 159 Rosetta E. Ross 11. A Moral Epistemology of Gender Violence 171 Traci C. West For Reflection and Study 185 Part Four: Moral Vision 12. An Ecowomanist Vision 189 Melanie L. Harris 13. An American Public Theology in the Absence of Giants: Creative Conflict and Democratic Longings 195 Victor Anderson 14. Walking on the Rimbones of Nothingness: Embodied Scholarship for Those of Us Way Down Under the Sun 215 Emilie M. Townes 15. Still on the Journey: Moral Witness, Imagination, and Improvisation in Public Life 229 Barbara A. Holmes For Reflection and Study 239 Afterword 241 Marcia Y. Riggs and James Samuel Logan Notes 243 Indexes 263 ...

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