Black and Womanist Theology Reading List
This is a partial list to start you on your way!
If you are trying to catch up on your readings this summer, here is a list for you! Some of these are now classics, but there are still a few you may not have in your library! Please read the following list and support our scholars by purchasing these books.
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (Paperback)
by Delores S. Williams
Just a Sister Away: Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible (Hardcover)
by Renita J. Weems
avg rating 4.30 — 206 ratings — published 1988
If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority (Paperback)
by Angela N. Parker
Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
by Emilie M. Townes, avg rating 4.38 — 131 ratings
Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective (Paperback)
by Karen Baker-Fletcher, avg rating 4.05 — 73 ratings — published 2006
Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture (Paperback)
by, Tamura Lomax, avg rating 4.41 — 34 ratings
Fannie Lou Hamer's Revolutionary Practical Theology: Racial and Environmental Justice Concerns (ebook) by Karen Crozier
Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader (Library of Theological Ethics)
by Katie Geneva Cannon (Editor)
avg rating 4.35 — 52 ratings — published 2011
Embracing the Spirit: Womanist Perspectives on Hope, Salvation, and Transformation (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion)
by Emilie M. Townes
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 1997
Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology (Innovations: African American Religious Thought)
by Monica A. Coleman (Goodreads Author)
avg rating 4.29 — 106 ratings — published 2008
Dust in the Blood: A Theology of Life with Depression (Paperback)
by Jessica Coblentz avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published
Ain't I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought (Innovations: African American Religious Thought)
by Monica A. Coleman, avg rating 3.86 — 21 ratings
Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne (Paperback) by Wilda C. Gafney, avg rating 4.64 — 561 ratings — published 2015
The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships (Paperback)
by Sobonfu Somé avg rating 4.37 — 822 ratings
A Lynched Black Wall Street (Hardcover)
by Jerrolyn S Eulinberg avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating
An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation (Paperback)
by Nyasha Junior avg rating 4.16 — 96 ratings — published 2015
Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality, and Biblical Interpretation by Mitzi J. Smith
avg rating 4.25 — 20 ratings
Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology (Paperback)
by Pamela R. Lightsey
avg rating 4.23 — 138 ratings — published 2015
Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse (Semeia Studies)
by Gay L. Byron, avg rating 4.67 — 15 ratings — published
When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective (Kindle Edition) by Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder
avg rating 4.42 — 19 ratings
I'm Black I'm Christian I'm Methodist (Paperback)
by RASMUS avg rating 4.13 — 23 ratings
They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies)
by, Randall C. Bailey (shelved 1 time as womanist-theology)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2009
I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader (Kindle Edition)
by Mitzi J. Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor) (shelved 1 time as womanist-theology)
avg rating 4.46 — 28 ratings — published 2015
The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Hardcover)
by James H. Cone
avg rating 4.51 — 4,930 ratings — published 2011
A Troubling in My Soul (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner Studies in North American Black R) by Emilie M. Townes
avg rating 4.47 — 30 ratings — published 1993
In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality as Social Witness (Paperback)
by Emilie M. Townes
avg rating 3.65 — 23 ratings — published 1995
Black Womanist Ethics (AAR Academy Series, 60)
by Katie Geneva Cannon
avg rating 4.13 — 60 ratings — published 1988
Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression (Paperback)
by Anthony B. Pinn (Editor)
avg rating 3.29 — 7 ratings — published 2009
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective (Paperback)
by Kelly Brown Douglas
avg rating 4.34 — 140 ratings — published 1999
Xodus - An African American Male Journey (Paperback)
by Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1995
Introducing Womanist Theology (Paperback)
by Stephanie Y. Mitchem
avg rating 3.93 — 42 ratings — published 2002
The Black Christ (Paperback)
by Kelly Brown Douglas (shelved 1 time as womanist-theology)
avg rating 4.15 — 184 ratings — published 1993
What's Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls (Paperback)
by Kelly Brown Douglas
avg rating 4.34 — 50 ratings — published
Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets (Paperback)
by Renita J. Weems
avg rating 3.86 — 120 ratings — published 1995
Here are additional resources we previously shared on this website:
Womanist approaches to Theology, Biblical Studies and Ethics prioritizes the epistemological insights of African descended women. As such, sacred text may include the Judeo-Christian Bible or Quran but will also include additional texts. For Christian scholars, these may be termed “extra-Biblical” texts. They will include texts from literature, music or film and even history.
Please also click here to access a powerful website, BlackWomenRadicals, we would like to highlight. It is not exhaustive, but it covers reading, photographic, film and music categories:
Movement Building + Activism
Literature + Poetry
Photography + Film + Archives + Art
Music.
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/black-feminists-make-history-everyday-black-history-month-2022
