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Stand Your Ground

Stand Your Ground

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CATHOLIC PRESS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD WINNER! - Faithful Citizenship/Religious Freedom

"The author strikes a good balance between political theology and analysis. Names in the news, including Michael Brown, combine with her own personal perspective as a mother to give the narrative poignancy and timeliness.Ā Stand Your GroundĀ raises important spiritual and social questions."—Publishers Weekly

"A clarion call to all in the United States, regardless of race, gender, class or faith, to acknowledge our sordid and painful past and to work together to transform the American dream of equality and opportunity into a reality for all."—Diana L. Hayes, inĀ National Catholic Reporter

ā€œIf Trayvon was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?ā€ā€”President Barack Obama

On the Sunday morning after the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer, black preachers across America addressed the questions his death raised for their communities: ā€œWhere is the justice of God? What are we to hope for?ā€

In this timely and compelling book, Kelly Brown Douglas examines the myths and narratives underlying a ā€œstand-your-groundā€ culture, taking seriously the social as well as the theological questions raised by this and similar events, from Ferguson, Missouri to Staten Island, New York.

But the author also brings another significant interpretative lens to this text: that of a mother. She writes: ā€œThere has been no story in the news that has troubled me more than that of Trayvon Martin’s slaying. President Obama said that if he had a son his son would look like Trayvon. I do have a son and he does look like Trayvon.ā€

In the face of tragedy and indifference, Kelly Brown Douglas arms the truth of a black mother’s faith in these times of ā€œstand your ground.ā€

TheĀ Rev. Canon Kelly Brown DouglasĀ is a Visiting Professor at Harvard Divinity School, and the Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral. Previously,Ā she served as Dean of of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary, NYC. She is considered a leader in the field of womanist theology, racial reconciliation, and sexuality and the black church. Her Orbis books includeĀ The Black Christ,Ā What’s Faith Got to Do with It? andĀ Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of GodĀ winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

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