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 examines racism, sexism, poverty, and stereotypes.

Author: Emilie M. Townes
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 02/23/2007
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781403972729

About the Author
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.