Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality

Traci C. West is Professor of Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University Theological School. She is the author of Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter and Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence and Resistance Ethics (NYU Press).

"This book is a gift. Traci C. West synthesizes scholarship, spirituality and searing analyses to challenge the ways we perceive, practice, and oppose violence. West built an international platform between book covers to transform religious, social, and political-economic institutions that structure predatory power. This book helps us to clean old wounds as it offers healing through strategic perspectives to diminish and eradicate gender violence." - Joy James,author of Seeking the Beloved Community, and editor of The New Abolitionists "Traci West's text is radically innovative, critically startling, and defiantly embodied. Her transnational approach to gender violence takes seriously the role of religion, spirituality, culture, and the wisdom of African women leaders. It utilizes courage, wit, and vast research findings extracted from many parts of the world." - Fulata Lusungu Moyo,Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians "Africana women fight for their agency. Traci West acts as a griot for this Africana revolutionary becoming, documenting their journeys to freedom. She carefully recovers women's voices lost to or drowned out by racist and sexist structures and creates a platform on and through which they can tell themselves. In ensuring their visibility Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality makes room for Africana women's possibility and power." (The Marginalia Review of Books) "Can assist faith-based anti-violence and anti-racist activists in acknowledging religion's collusion in the social structures that perpetuate sexual & gender based violence... This is a dense book that brings together transnational feminist theological, gender studies, sociological, and activist knowledge and experiences concerning SGBV. It is daring, creative work and an engrossing read for scholars familiar with these fields." (Sociology of Religion)