#BlackFaithFuture Reading List

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The Day God Saw Me as Black x D. Danyelle Thomas

I made this list prior to my book debut, but I can’t make a list without ME! The Day God Saw Me as Black is a genre-defying, cultural critique of white supremacy in the Black Pentecostal religious experience through the lenses of race, gender, sexual expression, and class analyses. A narrative that weaves between critique and meditation, decolonization and reconciliation, the theoretical and the deeply personal, The Day God Saw Me as Black is an imagining of what could be if we stopped denying ourselves — and each other — full liberation.

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Sex + Faith

• The Sexual Politics of Black Churches edited by Josef Sorett
• Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and the Famine of Grace by Jarel Robinson-Brown
• A Loving Home: Spirituality, Sexuality, and Healing Black Life by Lee H. Butler Jr.
• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks (Ibaye)
• Spirit of Intimacy by Sobonfu Some (Ibaye)
• Pussy Prayers: Sacred and Sensual Rituals for Wild Women of Color by Black Girl Bliss
• Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History by E. Patrick Johnson
• Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
• Please by Black Girls Bliss
• The Breath & Stillness of Sex by Amina Peterson
• The Black Goddess Collective Presents the Path to Pleasure by Tosh Patterson & Regine Monestime
• Sexuality & the Black Church by Kelly Brown Douglas
• Loving the Body: Black Religious Studies and the Erotic edited by Anthony Pinn & Dwight Hopkins
• Jezebel Unhinged by Tamura Lomax
• Passionate and Pious by Monique Moultrie
• Enfleshing Freedom by M. Shawn Copeland
• Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex) by Nadia Bill-Weber

Race + Faith

• Black Theology and Black Power by James H. Cone (ibaye)
• A Black Theology of Liberation by James H. Cone (ibaye)
• God of the Oppressed by James H. Cone (ibaye)
• Is God A White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology by William R. Jones (ibaye)
• Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas
• Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith by Obery M. Hendricks
• The Black Messiah by Albert G. Cleage Jr. (ibaye)
• Black Christian Nationalism: New Directions for the Black Church by Albert G. Cleage Jr. (ibaye)
• Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle by Dante Stewart
• The Black Practice of Disbelief by Anthony Pinn
• If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority by Angela N. Parker
• Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman

Gender + Faith

• An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation by Nyashia Junior
• Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne by Wil Gafney
• Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) by Brittney Cooper
• Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community by Katie Canon (ibaye)
• In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality as Social Witness by Emilie Townes
• Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon by Eboni Marshall Turman
• Inheriting Our Mothers’ Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective edited by Letty M. Russell (ibaye), Pui-lan Kwok, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (ibaye), Katie Cannon (ibaye)
• Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk by Delores S. Williams
• God is a Black Woman by Christena Cleveland

Ibaye

Ibaye is a Yoruba word used to acknowledge that the person you’re speaking of has passed. It is a sign of respect and honor. to the ancestral spirit of said person.