A collection of leading voices on the study of Black women in
religious life
Womanist approaches to the study of religion and society have
contributed much to our understanding of Black religious life, activism,
and women's liberation. Deeper Shades of Purple explores the
achievements of this movement over the past two decades and evaluates
some of the leading voices and different perspectives within this
burgeoning field.
Deeper Shades of Purple brings together a who's who of scholars in
the study of Black women and religion who view their scholarship through
a womanist critical lens. The contributors revisit Alice Walker's
definition of womanism for its viability for the approaches to
discourses in religion of Black women scholars. Whereas Walker has
defined what it means to be womanist, these contributors define what it
means to practice womanism, and illuminate how womanism has been used as
a vantage point for the theoretical orientations and methodological
approaches of Black women scholar-activists.
Contributors: Karen Baker-Fletcher, Katie G. Cannon, M. Shawn Copeland,
Kelly Brown Douglas, Carol B. Duncan, Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Rachel
Elizabeth Harding, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, Melanie L. Harris, Diana
L. Hayes, Dwight N. Hopkins, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Cheryl A.
Kirk-Duggan, Kwok Pui-Lan, Daisy L. Machado, Debra Majeed, Anthony B.
Pinn, Rosetta Ross, Letty M. Russell, Shani Settles, Dianne M. Stewart,
Raedorah Stewart-Dodd, Emilie M. Townes, Traci C. West, and Nancy Lynne
Westfield.
