Disruptive Christian ethics : when racism and women's lives matter / Traci C. West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West, Traci C., 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics.

Womanist theology.

Physical Description:

xxi, 216 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, [2006]

Summary:

Bringing to the fore the difficult realities of racism and the sexual violation of women, Traci West argues for a liberative method of Christian social ethics in which the discussion begins not with generic philosophical concepts but in the concrete realities of the lives of the socially and economically marginalized. By presenting conscience-jarring stories of individual women's experience and endurance of prejudice, violation, and subjugation, she demonstrates how racism can impact key ideas in Christian ethics, influence government policy on welfare, infect public practice, and invade worship. Her unique method of combining theory and practice allows these stories to critically engage the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr as well as feminist and womanist ethicists.

A virtual toolkit for how to "do" ethics, Disruptive Christian Ethics enables readers to hone their skills at recognizing racial subjugation and demonstrates how to make the transformation of unjust, marginalizing conditions for women a key criterion for evaluating society's health.

Contents:

Context : Niebuhr's ethics and Harlem activists

Terms : feminist/womanist ethics and sexual violation

Policy : the Bible and welfare reform

Liturgy : church worship and white superiority

Leadership : dissenting leaders and heterosexism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

066422959X

OCLC:

61881173

Publisher Number:

9780664229597