Description
UP AGAINST A CROOKED GOSPEL
Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption
Melanie Jones Quarles
An essential text for students and scholars of womanist thought, ethics, biblical studies, and Black religion.
Drawing upon her grandmother's personal struggles with physical "bendedness" and the narrative of the bent woman in Luke 13:10-17, Melanie Jones Quarles engages Black religious thought and cultural criticism to expose how the Black Church paradoxically nurtures Black women while also sustaining their oppression. Quarles mines the prophetic imaginations of influential womanist thinkers, crafting a liberating vision that resists serving as surrogate "saviors" in society and religion.
With insights into politics, Christology, and biblical interpretation, this book boldly calls Black women to unbend their bodies and reclaim their moral agency in the face of crooked systems that attempt to constrain their freedom.
Author: Melanie Jones Quarles
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 11/20/2024
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.13w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9781626985865
ISBN10: 1626985863
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology | Ethics & Moral Teaching
- Religion | Christianity | History
About the Author
Melanie Jones Quarles is a womanist ethicist, millennial preacher, and intellectual activist. She is on the faculty of Union Presbyterian Seminary and is the inaugural director of the Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership. Melanie engages womanist theological ethics and sacred texts, millennials and faith, and Black aesthetics and popular culture. A third-generation ordained Baptist preacher and sought-after lecturer, Melanie is an emerging millennial voice with noted academic and popular publications.