#BlackFaithFuture Reading List

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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

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

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.