Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword Layli Maparyan xiii
Contributors xvii
Introduction: Ain't I a Womanist Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religions Thought Monica A. Coleman 1
Part I Religious Pluralism
1 Muslim Marriage: A Womanist Perspective on Troubling U.S. Traditions Debra Majeed 25
2 From Mistress to Mother: The Religious Life and Transformation of Tynetta Muhammad in the Nation of Islam Stephen C. Finley 49
3 Nature, Sexuality, and Spirituality: A Womanist Reading of Di Mu (Earth Mother) and Di Mu Jing (Songs of Earth Mother) in China Pu Xiumei 63
Part II Popular Culture
4 Is This a Dance Floor or a Revival Meeting?: Theological Questions and Challenges from the Underground House Music Movement Darnise C. Martin 81
5 Confessions of a Ex-Theological Bitch: The Thickness of Black Women's Exploitation between Jacqnelyn Grant's "Backbone" and Michael Eric Dyson's "Theological Bitch" Elonda Clay 93
6 It's Deeper Than Rap: Hip Hop, the South, and Abrahamic Masculinity Ronald B. Neal 107
Part III Gender and Sexuality
7 "I Am a Nappy-Headed Ho": (Re)Signifying "Deviance" in the Haraam of Religious Respectability" Monica R. Miller 123
8 Dark Matter: Liminality and Black Queer Bodies Roger A. Sneed 139
9 Invisible Hands: An Epistemology of Black Religious Thought and Black Lesbian Sexual Desire That Disrupts "Crystallized Culture" Nessette Falu 149
10 "Beyond Heterosexuality": Toward a Prolegomenon of Re-Presenting Black Masculinity at the Beginning of the Post-Civil Rights, Post-Liberation Era EL Kornegay 161
Part IV Politics
11 Aesthetic Pragmatism and a Third Wave of Radical Politics Sharon D. Welch 175
12 "Well Make Us a World": A Post-Obama Politics of Embodied Creativity Barbara A. Holmes 187
13 Scholarly Aesthetics and the Religious Critic: Black Experience as Manifolds of Manifestations and Powers of Presentations Victor Anderson 201
14 Embodying Womanism: Notes toward a Holistic and Liberating Pedagogy Arisika Razak 217
