Featuring the CST Drumming Circle
 
Remarks
Jerry Campbell, Claremont School of Theology
Karen Torjesen, Claremont Graduate University
Susan Nelson, Claremont School of Theology
 
Inspired Poetry
Raedorah Stewart Personal Web Site
 
Lecture
“Ain’t I A Womanist Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought”
Monica A. Coleman

8:30 am – 9:00 am
Introductory/ Welcome Remarks

· Monica A. Coleman, Conference Host
· Susan Nelson, Claremont School of Theology
· Karen Torjesen, Claremont Graduate University

Religious Pluralism
9:00 am - 10:30 am

1. Muslim Marriage: A Womanist Perspective
Debra Majeed

2. From Mistress to Mother: The Religious Life and Transformation of Tynetta Muhammad in the Nation of Islam
Stephen C. Finley

3. Nature, Sexuality, and Spirituality: a Womanist Reading of Di Mu (Earth Mother) and Di Mu Jing (Songs of Earth Mother) in China
Xiumei Pu

Popular Culture
10:45 am – 12:00 noon

4. Is this a Dance Floor or a Revival Meeting? Theological Questions and Challenges from the Underground House Music Movement
Darnise C. Martin

5. Confessions ....
Elonda Clay

6. It’s Deeper Than Rap: Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Religion
Ronald Neal

LUNCH
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm

Gender & Sexuality
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

7. I Am a Nappy Headed Ho!: (Re)Signifying “Deviance” in the Haraam of Religious Respectability - (Towards a Risky Religiosity)
Monica R. Miller

8. On Liminality and Black Queer Existence
Roger Sneed

9. Black Religious Identities of Invisible Hands: Epistemologies of Desire and Religion in Crystallized Culture
Nessette Falu

10. Beyond Heterosexuality(?): Towards a Prolegomenon of Re-presenting Black Masculinity at the Beginning of the Post-Civil Rights Post-Liberation Era
Eddie Kornegay, Jr.

Politics
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

11. The Sign of the Times: a Post-Obama Third Wave Womanist Cultural Critique
Barbara A. Holmes

12. Aesthetic Pragmatism and a Third Wave of Radical Politics
Sharon D. Welch

13. The Religious Critic and the Scholarly Aesthetic: Experience in Manifestation and Power
Victor Anderson

14. Embodying Womanism or Notes towards a Holistic and Liberating Pedagogy
Arisika Razak