Up Against a Crooked Gospel: Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption
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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.
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 11/20/2024
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.13w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9781626985865
About the Author
Melanie Jones Quarles is a womanist ethicist, millennial preacher, and intellectual activist. Melanie is assistant professor of ethics, theology, and culture and the inaugural director of the Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership at Union Presbyterian Seminary. Melanie engages womanist theological ethics and sacred texts, millennials and faith, and Black aesthetics and popular culture. Melanie is co-curator of #MillennnialWomanism Digital Forum and Co-Founder of The Millennial Womanism Project (TMWP) -- an enterprise committed to enhancing the well-being of Black millennial women of faith and justice and fostering trans-generational womanist dialogue.