Katie's Canon is a selection of essays written for a variety of occasions throughout Cannon's celebrated career. This new edition contains three additional essays and a new foreword by Emilie Townes. The volume weaves together the particularities of Cannon's own history and the oral tradition of African American women, African American women's literary traditions, and sociocultural and ethical analysis. The result is a classic. Cannon addresses racism and economics, analyses of Zora Neale Hurston as a resource for a constructive ethic, the importance of race and gender in the development of a Black liberation ethic, womanist preaching in the Black church, and slave ideology and biblical interpretation.
Katie Geneva Cannon (1950-2018) was the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia (2001-2018). She was the first African American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA) and was the pioneer of womanist theology and ethics. Among her many books are God's Fierce Whimsy: The Implications of Feminism for Theological Education (1985), Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader (2011), and The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology (2014).
Katie's Canon 25th Anniversary Proposed Structure Forward New Forward- Emilie M. Townes Introduction- Katie's Original New Introduction- Womanist Perspectival Discourse Part One*: Womanism as unapologetic moral agency of Black women grounded in consciousness, critique and creativity 1. Surviving the Blight 2. Emergence of Black Feminist Consciousness 3. Moral Wisdom In the Black Women's Literary Tradition 4. Unctuousness as Virtue- According to the Life of Zora Neale Hurston Part Two*: Womanism as indivisibly inclusive approach to justice-making essential to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female 5. Hitting a Straight Lick With A Crooked Stick: The Womanist Dilemma in the Development of Black Liberation Ethic 6. Appropriation and Reciprocity in the Doing of Womanist Ethics 7. Womanist Interpretation and Preaching in the Black Church 8. Sexing Black Women: Liberation from the Prisonhouse of Anatomical Authority Part Three*: Womanism as defiant affirmation of loving our own sources, stories and culture, regardless 9. Exposing My Home Point of View 10. Resources for a Constructive Ethic: The Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston 11. Teaching Afrocentric Ethics: The Hinges Upon Which the Future Swings 12. Racism and Economics: The Perspective of Oliver C. Cox Part Four*: Womanism as continual moral commitment to participate in critical and constructive movements of the Dance of Redemption in order to "remembering what we never knew." 13. Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation 14. The Wounds of Jesus: Justification of Goodness in the Face of Manifold Evil 15. Metalogues and Dialogues: Teaching the Womanist Idea 16. Unearthing Ethical Treasures: The Intrusive Markers of Social Class
