Up Against a Crooked Gospel: Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption - Paperback

by Melanie Jones Quarles (Author)

Ethics and Intersectionality Series

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.

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US$30.00

RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics

RELIGION / Christian Living / Women's Interests

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American & Black Studies

Up Against a Crooked Gospel

Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption

Melanie Jones Quarles

Ethics and Intersectionality Series

Cover design: Regina Gelfer

Cover photos: iStock photo

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ISBN 978-1-62698-586-5

Author Biography

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.