Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community, Revised and Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition

Katie Geneva Cannon (1950-2018) was the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia (2001-2018). She was the first African American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA) and was the pioneer of womanist theology and ethics. Among her many books are God's Fierce Whimsy: The Implications of Feminism for Theological Education (1985), Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader (2011), and The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology (2014).

"Boom! Katie's Canon captures the moral wisdom of Black women while accomplishing her goal to 'recast the very terms and terrain of religious scholarship.' The gathers the best of Cannon's writings as a prophetic call for future generations to confront systems of domination and move from death to life. Katie's Canon is the sacred text that every student of womanist religious thought will return to again and again." --Melanie Jones

"To read Katie's Canon is to experience an African American spiritual in the making." --Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan

"We still hear Katie Geneva Cannon's voice. Cannon calls us into our most authentic selves to do justice 'for the people.'" --Sharon Watson Flucker

"Every theologian, student, and layperson should have a copy of Katie's Canon to measure the breadth and depth of their theological commitment." --James H. Cone

"This is vintage Katie Cannon--challenging, prophetic, self-critical, and womanist to the bone." --Cornel West

"Katie's Canon illustrates the work of making Black women visible. Cannon demonstrates the presence of another canon of moral reasoning not bound to the predominately white and male academy." --Reggie Williams