Table of Contents

Introduction by Michele Saracino
An Interview with M. Shawn Copeland, with Robert Rivera and Michele Saracino
Part 1: Engaging Embodiment
1. “A Body of Broken Bones”: Shawn Copeland and the New Anthropological Subject - Roberto S. Goizueta
2. “Today a Black [Wo]man Was Lynched:” A Womanist Christology of Sandra Bland - Eboni Marshall Turman
3. Mapping Methodological Directions for Womanist Scholarship - Katie G. Cannon
4. Learning to Enflesh Freedom: Returning to the Clearing - Laurie Cassidy
5. Black Eucharist: Practical Discipleship for the Human Race - Susan Abraham
6. Black Lives Matter as Enfleshed Theology - Stephen G. Ray Jr.
Part 2: Engaging Discipleship
7. “Enacted Discipleship” as Christian Anthropology - Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM
8. Standing at the Foot of the Cross - Nancy Pineda-Madrid
9. Enfleshing Freedom: A Christological Focus on Discipleship in Light of the Crucified Jesus and Black Bodies - Shawnee M. Daniels-Sykes
10. Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain and Biblical Studies - Deirdre Dempsey
11. To Be a Thinking Margin: Reframing Christian Intellectual Life - Willie James Jennings
Part 3: Engaging the Political
12. The Significance and Singularity of M. Shawn Copeland’s Methodology - Susan L. Gray
13. God’s Image Revealed in Authentic Living: Mutual Enrichment through the Drama of Theological Education across Cultures - Kathleen Williams, RSM
14. White Supremacy and Christian Theology - Karen Teel
15. The Dark Night(s) of Malcolm X: Apophatic Mysticism and African American Spirituality - Bryan N. Massingale
16. Disturbing the Aesthetics of Race: M. Shawn Copeland and the Justice of Beauty - Maureen O’Connell
17. Drawing Close to Bodily Pain and Grace: Copeland, Social Sin, and Solidarity’s Incarnational Imperative - Christine Firer Hinze
Selected Bibliography of M. Shawn Copeland

About the Author

Robert J. Rivera is assistant professor of theology at St. John's University.

Michele Saracino is professor of religious studies at Manhattan College.

Reviews

A stunning compendium of insights! With great originality and verve the essays wrestle, take deep dives, and run with Copeland’s intuitions into new territories. More than simple tribute, this excellent, heartwarming book shows the far-reaching influence of an extraordinary theologian whose thought benefits all of humanity, those without dignity most of all.
*Elizabeth A. Johnson, Distinguished Professor of Theology, Fordham University*

This fine collection of diverse voices captures the essence of Copeland’s clarity, creativity, and commitment to a theology that cares for creation. This village of scholars captures the broad terrain of Copeland’s theology as truth-telling and invites the reader into critical deep engagement with it. We are the better for it if we accept their invitation.
*Emilie M. Townes, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology, Yale Divinity School*

This collection of essays on Shawn Copeland’s work is magnificent. Copeland is a must-read author in Black theology, and this group of essays demonstrates her importance and influence in and beyond Black Catholic theologies. This volume honors Copeland and it also honors its editors and authors. Magnificent!
*Orlando O. Espin, Ph.D., professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies at University of San Diego and director of the Center for the Study of L*