Foreword, Emilie Townes
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Teresa L. Smallwood and Christophe D. Ringer
Part One: Black Public Theology
Chapter One: “Today is Not My Day to Die”: Public Theology, Precarious Lives, and the Politics of the Streets, Michael Brandon McCormack and Stachelle Bussey
Chapter Two: Black Lives Matter: A Black Theological Hauntology, Charlene Sinclair
Chapter Three: Their Words Became Flesh, Teresa L. Smallwood
Chapter Four: We Gon’ Be Alright: Public Theology, Subjectivity and Experiencing the Sacred in the Movement for Black Lives, Christophe D. Ringer
Part Two: Black Humanity
Chapter Five: Self-Amending Blackness and The Movement for Black Lives: Justice and Leadership in Liberatory Spaces, Forrest E. Harris
Chapter Six: On In(Visibilities), José Francisco Morales Torres
Chapter Seven: The Emergence of the Black Buddhist Radical Tradition, Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Rima Vesely-Flad
Part Three: Black Churches
Chapter Eight: The Black Church Movement Profile is Dead: The Audacious Absurdity of Transgressive Imagination Between “The American Dream” and the Nightmare, Tamura Lomax
Chapter Nine: Walk Together Children: Lessons in Unity, Leah D. Daughtry
Chapter Ten: Slain…in the Spirit: A Black Womanist Pneumatological Aesthetic of the Movement for Black Lives, Eboni Marshall Turman
Part Four: Black Religious Culture
Chapter Eleven: Preaching Wholeness for Black Lives, Debra Mumford
Chapter Twelve: Envisioning Justice Beyond Resistance: Black Lives Matter & Aretha Franklin’s “Mary Don’t You Weep”, Herbert R. Marbury
Chapter Thirteen: Keeping the Waters Troubled for a Better Day: A Dialectic of Resistance and Restoration in the Movement for Black Lives, Scott C. Williamson
Part Five: Bearing Witness for Black Lives
Chapter Fourteen: “My God is Black, My God is Female”: Rhetoric, Race and the Spirituality of Black Lives Matter, Andre E. Johnson
Chapter Fifteen: An Epistle on Ferguson, Osagyefo Sekou
Chapter Sixteen: Reading the Fine Print: Evaluating our Commitment to All Black Lives, Leslie Callahan
Chapter Seventeen: A Call to Heal, Traci Blackmon
Afterword, Victor Anderson
Index
About the Contributors