EMILIE M. TOWNES is an ordained Baptist clergywoman and the Carolyn Williams Beaird Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, USA. She is also Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African-American Religion and Theology at Yale University, has been elected 2008 President of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the 15, 000-member organization. Townes is the first African-American woman to serve as President of the AAR, which is the world”s largest association of scholars who teach or research topics related to religion.
7 Ebooks by Emilie M. Townes
Kenneth A. Loparo & Emilie M. Townes: Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil
This groundbreaking book provides an analytical tool to understand how and why evil works in the world as it does. Deconstructing memory, history, and myth as received wisdom, the volume critically …
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€128.39
Whitney Bauman & Lisa Stenmark: Unsettling Science and Religion
This book borrows from the intellectual labor of queer theory in order to unsettleor ‘;queer’the discourses of ‘;religion’ and ‘;science, ‘ and, by extension, the ‘;science and religion discourse.’ …
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€121.74
Townes Emilie M. Townes & Mitchem Stephanie Y. Mitchem: Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life
Black Americans are more likely than Whites to die of cancer and heart disease, more likely to get diabetes and asthma, and less likely to get preventive care and screening. Some of this greater …
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€56.14
Phillis Isabella Sheppard & Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm: Preaching Prophetic Care
Preachers often think of prophetic preaching in the caricature of the prophet as the lonely outsider confronting the congregation, often angrily, with the congregation’s complicity in social …
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€46.99
Emilie M. Townes & Stacey Floyd-Thomas: Walking through the Valley
The late Katie Geneva Cannon was the founder of womanist ethics. Her work continues to generate new explorations of womanist moral thought. In this volume, leading womanist ethicists and theologians …
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€25.99
Frederick V. Simmons: Love and Christian Ethics
At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one”s neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the r …
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€38.74
