Tilling Sacred Grounds

Phillis Isabella Sheppard is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion and the director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements.

• Introduction: Interiority and Public ReligionChapter 1: Audre Lorde: “from the Gut of Blackness” A Black Lesbian SpiritualityChapter 2: Visions of Self and Transformation in Black Outsider ArtChapter 3: Black Women Living Religion in CyberspaceChapter 4: “Because I am a Woman” Vocation and Trauma in Alecia Brown LifeChapter 5: Tilling Sacred Ground: Meditation on Ritual and Resistance

Drawing on the work of Audre Lorde, womanist scholar Phillis Sheppard offers a compelling theological analysis of Black women's interior lives and their contributions to public discourse.