Womanist ethics and the cultural production of evil /

This groundbreaking book provides an analytical tool to understand how and why evil works in the world as it does. Deconstructing memory, history, and myth as received wisdom, the volume critically examines racism, sexism, poverty, and stereotypes.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Townes, Emilie Maureen, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
Subjects:
Christian ethics.
Womanist theology.
Théologie womaniste.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Christian ethics
Womanist theology
Christliche Ethik
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The womanist dancing mind : cavorting with culture and evil
  • Sites of memory : proceedings too terrible to relate
  • Vanishing into limbo : the moral dilemma of identity as property and commodity
  • Invisible things spoken : uninterrogated coloredness
  • Legends are memories greater than memories : Black reparations in the United States as subtext to Christian triumphalism and empire
  • To pick one's own cotton : religious values, public policy, and women's moral autonomy
  • Growing like topsy : solidarity in the work of dismantling evil
  • Everydayness : beginning notes on dismantling the cultural production of evil.

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