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Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics

Part of the Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230113930

ISBN: 978-1-349-37879-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 2, 2015

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Introduction

Harris, Melanie L.

Pages: 1 –13

[Many said it would not be here. Still. Regardless. And after almost thirty years, womanist theology survives and thrives through the pens, teaching, writing, art, and activism of several waves of womanist religious thought. Birthed out of the minds and critical thinking of such scholars as Katie...
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“A Womanist Story”: Alice Walker’s Moral Biography

Harris, Melanie L.

Pages: 15 –48

[The life of Alice Walker is more than a collection of historical events and memories. It is, rather, a rich orchestra of people, movements, morals, values, personal achievements, and societal transformations that have shaped the personhood and life orientation of this well-known author. This...
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A Path Set before Us: Womanist Virtue Method

Harris, Melanie L.

Pages: 49 –58

[In North America, the waves of womanist religious thought begin with the wind-like dancing motion of several women scholars of African descent who are engaged in the discourse of religion, theology, biblical studies, and ethics, and dedicated to creating room for their own voices and the voices...
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Doing the Work: Building a Womanist Virtue Ethic

Harris, Melanie L.

Pages: 59 –87

[Building on Cannon’s method of gleaning virtues and values for womanist ethics from the source of black women’s literature, I show in this chapter the unique relevance of Alice Walker’s voice and ethical perspective for womanist religious thought and identify various moral values interwoven in...
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Stay on the Path, Walk the Journey: Values to Hold On

Harris, Melanie L.

Pages: 89 –107

[Alice Walker does not claim to be a trained theological ethicist familiar with the details of womanist ethical methodologies used to help chart virtues and values helpful in living everyday life. However, it is precisely her attention to method that makes her work an excellent resource for...
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Take Back Your Life: Virtues to Live By

Harris, Melanie L.

Pages: 109 –123

[Laughing out loud, joking about odd family characteristics, and finding out how family recipes came to the kitchen table in the first place are traditions generally associated with African and African American family culture. However, when it comes to discussing how trauma, violence, and abuse...
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Third-Wave Womanism: Expanding Womanist Discourse, Making Room for Our Children

Harris, Melanie L.

Pages: 125 –138

[As womanist theology and ethics celebrate almost thirty years in the academy, it is important to lift up the valuable contributions womanists and nonwomanists alike have made toward the development of the interreligious, global-reaching, and interdisciplinary field of womanist religious thought....
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Epilogue

Harris, Melanie L.

Pages: 139 –149

[The womanist mother-daughter conversation above refers to the process of becoming whole. Often referring to a unity between the body, mind, and spirit, wholeness also connotes a deep sense of knowing and being centered in oneself enough to bring wholeness and centeredness to another. In essence,...

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