Foreword / Layli Maparyan
Introduction: Ain't I a womanist, too?: third wave womanist religious thought / Monica A. Coleman
Part I. Religious pluralism. Muslim marriage: a womanist perspective on troubling U.S. traditions / Debra Majeed
From mistress to mother: the religious life and transformation of Tynetta Muhammad in the Nation of Islam / Stephen C. Finley
Nature, sexuality, and spirituality: a womanist reading of Di Mu (Earth Mother) and Di Mu Jing (Songs of Earth Mother) in China / Pu Xiumei
Part II. Popular culture. Is this a dance floor or a revival meeting?: theological questions and challenges from the underground house music movement / Darnise C. Martin
Confessions of a ex-theological bitch: the thickness of black women's exploitation between Jacquelyn Grant's "Backbone" and Michael Eric Dyson's "Theological bitch" / Elonda Clay
It's deeper than rap: hip hop, the South, and Abrahamic masculinity / Ronald B. Neal
Part III. Gender and sexuality. "I am a nappy-headed ho": (re)signifying "deviance" in the haraam of religious respectability / Monica R. Miller
Dark matter: liminality and black queer bodies / Roger A. Sneed
Invisible hands: an epistemology of black religious thought and black lesbian sexual desire that disrupts "crystallized culture" / Nessette Falu
"Beyond heterosexuality": toward a prolegomenon of re-presenting black masculinity at the beginning of the post-civil rights, post-liberation era / E L Kornegay Jr.
Part IV. Politics. Aesthetic pragmatism and a third wave of radical politics / Sharon D. Welch
"We'll make us a world": a post-Obama politics of embodied creativity / Barbara A. Holmes
Scholarly aesthetics and the religious critic: black experience as manifolds of manifestations and powers of presentations / Victor Anderson
Embodying womanism: notes toward a holistic and liberating pedagogy / Arisika Razak.