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To reveal the ugliness demands courage because it is so painful. The reflective process of unravelling the impact of racist patterns, as well as the commitment to remaining focused on them and inviting others to do so too, requires scholarly and spiritual stamina. Katie Cannon's work provides us with historically rooted, geopolitically situated, and intimate examples of black women's epistemological strength. She depicts black women's embodied knowledge as a creative force. The task of the womanist ethicist, she insisted, is to uncover and comprehend it.
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Squaring the Womanist Circle Project at Union Presbyterian Seminary. Following from the research results produced by the project, Cannon worked with the administration of Union Presbyterian Seminary and several foundations to establish The
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Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective
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God's Fierce Whimsy: The Implications of Feminism for Theological Education.
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God's fierce whimsy : Christian feminism and theological education
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Social Ethics in the Making: Interpreting an American Tradition
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Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric
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An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies
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Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community
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United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
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1974 Ascension Presbyterian Church in New York, New York
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