Introduction
This resource list was created as part of a campus-wide initiative in partnership with the Black Religious Scholars Group/Crump Visiting Professorship. As we move toward greater justice and mercy, we seek to create conversations characterized by honesty and generous openness. We believe this effort will strengthen our community, bear witness to our unity in Christ, and make the seminary even more hospitable to all people. This libguide is a living document that is updated regularly. If you have resources to suggest, please contact the Harrison Librarians at library@ssw.edu.
Articles written by Southwest faculty, staff, and students
Dr. Renita Weems
Seminary of the Southwest is excited to announce that noted biblical scholar and theologian, Dr. Renita Weems, will join the Southwest Faculty for the Spring 2024 semester as a visiting professor. Read the complete press release on Southwest's website.
Bishop Harrison Library has many of Dr. Weems's books available in print and electronic format. Use Seeker to find and access academic journal articles authored by our visiting professor.
Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets by Call Number: BS1505.2 .W38 1995ISBN: 9780800629489Publication Date: 1995-11-30Print Book
Listening for God: a Minister's Journey through Silence and Doubt by Call Number: BX8473.W44 A3 2000ISBN: 9780684863139Publication Date: 2000-12-05Print Book
Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women's Relationships in the Bible by Call Number: BS575 .W39 1988ISBN: 0931055520Publication Date: 1988-05-01Print Book
What Matters Most: Ten Lessons in Living Passionately from the Song of Solomon by ISBN: 9780446532419Publication Date: 2004-04-12eBook
Showing Mary: How Women Can Share Prayers, Wisdom, and the Blessings of God by ISBN: 9780446530668Publication Date: 2002-05-02eBook
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Breaking Free to Write: From Fear to Finish by Call Number: PE1404 .K57 2021ISBN: 979-8473440478Publication Date: 2021-09-08
I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader by Call Number: BS521.4 .I5 2015ISBN: 9781625647450Publication Date: 2015-02-05
Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning (Routledge Studies in Hip Hop and Religion) by Call Number: ML420.L2276 K45 2020ISBN: 9781032177168Publication Date: 2021
Mining the Motherlode: Methods in Womanist Ethics by Call Number: BJ1278.W663 F56 2006ISBN: 9780829815849Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Religion, Race, and COVID-19: Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic by Call Number: HN90.S62 R45 2022ISBN: 9781479810222Publication Date: 2022-02-15
Queering Black Churches: Dismantling Heteronormativity in African American Congregations by Call Number: BT83.65 .C76 2024ISBN: 0197662625Publication Date: 2024-03-29
Walking Through the Valley: Womanist Explanations in the Spirit of Katie Geneva Cannon by ISBN: 9780664267216Publication Date: 2022-10-11Date Added: 11/11/2022
We Have Been Believers: An African American Systematic Theology by ISBN: 9780800698782Publication Date: 2012-03-01
Making It Plain: The Sacred Tradition and Civil Discourse of African American Biblical Interpretation
Web Resources
- Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing. The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta and The Episcopal Church. n.d. Web. 16 Aug. 2019.“The Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing is imagined as a brave space where there is enough courage to allow for racial healing and reconciliation to occur.”
- Becoming Beloved Community: The Episcopal Church's Long-Term Commitment to Racial Healing, Reconciliation, and Justice. Web. 09 Sep. 2019.The Episcopal Church's long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation and justice.
- The Church Awakens: African Americans and the Struggle for Justice. The Archives of the Episcopal Church. 2017. Web. 30 Jul. 2019.The Church Awakens is an electronic publication and online exhibit of The Archives of the Episcopal Church first created in 2008 and updated periodically
- Prayers for Racial Reconciliation and Justice. Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music of the Episcopal Church. 03 Jan. 2018. Web. 30 Jul. 2019.Resolution A182 of the 2015 General Convention calls the wider church to be in conversation and to take action on racial reconciliation and justice.
- Racial Reconciliation. The Episcopal Church. Web. 30 Jul. 2019.Reconciliation is the spiritual practice of seeking loving, liberating and life-giving relationship with God and one another, and striving to heal and transform injustice and brokenness in ourselves, our communities, institutions, and society.
- Sacred Ground: A Film-Based Dialogue Series on Race & Faith. The Episcopal Church. n.d. Web. 24 Sep. 2019.Sacred Ground is a film- and readings-based dialogue series on race, grounded in faith. Small groups are invited to walk through chapters of America’s history of race and racism, while weaving in threads of family story, economic class, and political and regional identity.
- The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation. Sewanee: The University of the South. n.d. Web. 04 Oct. 2019.The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation at the University of the South is a six-year initiative investigating the university’s historical entanglements with slavery and slavery’s legacies.
- Theology and Racialized Policing Cohort Program. Sojourners. 04 Oct. 2019. Web. 04 Oct. 2019.Sojourners, in partnership with the Howard University School of Divinity and the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA), presents the Theology and Racialized Policing Cohort Program.
New Print books
Deconstructing Whiteness, Empire and Mission by Call Number: BV2063 .D43 2023ISBN: 9780334055938Publication Date: 2023-07-28
"Psalms for Black Lives: Reflections for the Work of Liberation " by Call Number: BS1430.54 .C84 2022ISBN: 9780835820073
New e-books
bell hooks' spiritual vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist by ISBN: 9781506488370Publication Date: 2023-11-07Date Added: 12/15/2023
Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical Interpretation After Stony the Road We Trod in the Age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo by ISBN: 9781978712003Publication Date: 2022-02-28
Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative by ISBN: 9780813068596Publication Date: 2021-10-05Date Added: 11/20/2023
Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love Heals by Call Number: 2021-08-09ISBN: 9780367375720Date Added: 11/20/2023
Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition by ISBN: 9781506463254Publication Date: 2023-11-28Date Added: 12/04/2023
