Ain't I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought

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CONTENTS xi Acknowledgments Foreword xiii Layli Maparyan xvii Contributors Introduction: Ain’t I a Womanist Too? Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought 1 Monica A. Coleman Part I. Part I. Religious Pluralism Religious Pluralism 1. Muslim Marriage A Womanist Perspective on Troubling U.S. Traditions 35 Debra Majeed 2. From Mistress to Mother The Religious Life and Transformation of Tynetta Muhammad in the Nation of Islam 49 Stephen C. Finley 3. Nature, Sexuality, and Spirituality A Womanist Reading of Di Mu (Earth Mother) and Di Mu Jing (Songs of Earth Mother) in China 63 Pu Xiumei Part II. Part II. Popular Culture Popular Culture 4. Is This a Dance Floor or a Revival Meeting? Theological Questions and Challenges from the Underground House Music Movement 81 Darnise C. Martin vii 5. Confessions of a Ex-Theological Bitch The Thickness of Black Women’s Exploitation between Jacquelyn Grant’s “Backbone” and Michael Eric Dyson’s “Theological Bitch” 93 Elonda Clay 6. It’s Deeper Than Rap Hip Hop, the South, and Abrahamic Masculinity 107 Ronald B. Neal Part III. Part III. Gender and Sexuality Gender and Sexuality 7. “I Am a Nappy-Headed Ho” (Re)Signifying “Deviance” in the Haraam of Religious Respectability” 123 Monica R. Miller 8. Dark Matter Liminality and Black Queer Bodies 139 Roger A. Sneed 9. Invisible Hands An Epistemology of Black Religious Thought and Black Lesbian Sexual Desire That Disrupts “Crystallized Culture” 149 Nessette Falu 10. “Beyond Heterosexuality” Toward a Prolegomenon of Re-Presenting Black Masculinity at the Beginning of the Post–Civil Rights, Post-Liberation Era 161 EL Kornegay Jr. Part IV. Part IV. Politics Politics 11. Aesthetic Pragmatism and a Third Wave of Radical Politics 175 Sharon D. Welch 12. “We’ll Make Us a World” A Post-Obama Politics of Embodied Creativity 187 Barbara A. Holmes viii 13. Scholarly Aesthetics and the Religious Critic Black Experience as Manifolds of Manifestations and Powers of Presentations 201 Victor Anderson 14. Embodying Womanism Notes toward a Holistic and Liberating Pedagogy 217 Arisika Razak ix ...