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Emilie M. Townes is a womanist theologian
and Professor of Christian Social Ethics
at Union Theological Seminary. She is the
author of Womanist Justice, Womanist Hope,
and In a Blaze of Glory: Womanist Spirituality
as Social Witness, and the editor of Troubling
in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil
and Suffering. Her most recent book, Breaking
the Fine Rain of Death: African American
Health Issues and a Womanist Ethic of Care,
focuses on health issues affecting African
Americans from a womanist perspective that
attends to race and class, as well as to
gender.
She brings to the Boston Healing Landscape
Project an in-depth understanding of the
history of health care in African American
communities, and a vision of other healing
models. Dr. Townes also served as the Director
of "Mining the Motherlode: Teaching
African American Religions," a year-long
workshop on pedagogy related to these traditions,
and funded by the American Academy of Religion
and the Lilly Endowment. As a theologian
committed to justice, her presence will
insure that our work be congruent with a
womanist ethos.
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