Foreword / Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot -- 1. Surviving the Blight -- 2. Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation -- 3. The Emergence of Black Feminist Consciousness -- 4. Moral Wisdom in the Black Women's Literary Tradition -- 5. Womanist Perspectival Discourse and Canon Formation -- 6. Resources for a Constructive Ethic: The Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston -- 7. Unctuousness as Virtue -- According to the Life of Zora Neale Hurston -- 8. "The Wounds of Jesus": Justification of Goodness in the Face of Manifold Evil -- 9. Womanist Interpretation and Preaching in the Black Church -- 10. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: The Womanist Dilemma in the Development of a Black Liberation Ethic -- 11. Appropriation and Reciprocity in the Doing of Womanist Ethics -- 12. Metalogues and Dialogues: Teaching the Womanist Idea -- 13. Racism and Economics: The Perspective of Oliver C. Cox -- Appendix: Exposing My Home Point of View. Abstract In 13 essays and an appendix, Cannon charts the process of her canon formation, based on an inclusive ethic. She says that in each essay she is "conducting a three-pronged systemic analysis of race, sex and class from the perspective of African American women in the academy of religion." Her development begins with an historical detailing of what forged the black feminist consciousness. Cannon reveals how black women have found themselves to be moral agents in an African American tradition that combines both the "real-lived" texture of African American life and the oral-aural cultural tradition vital to African Americans. Cannon, the first African American woman to earn a Ph. D. from Union Theological Seminary and the first to be ordained to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament in the United Presbyterian Church USA, a womanist philosopher and a theologian, deals mainly with canonical issues and "canon formation" as she calls for an inclusive rather than an exclusive frame of reference for governing life choices. Katie's Canon is both provocative Published in: NEWYORK Physical description: 191 pages ; 25 cm

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