Book Recommendations

For CTS students, learning happens both inside the classroom and outside the classroom. CTS professors recommend the following books for extending learning beyond classroom walls.

LEE H. BUTLER, JR.

• Albert Cleage Jr. & the Black Madonna & Child, edited by Jawanza Eric Clark
• Postcolonializing God: An African Practical Theology, by Emmanuel Y. Lartey

KEN STONE

• Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, & Power, by Donovan O. Schaefer
• The Question of the Animal & Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications, by Aaron S. Gross
• An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation, by Nyasha Junior

RACHEL MIKVA

• Interfaith Leadership, by Eboo Patel
• The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives, by Marla Brettschneider
• The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis or Moses: A Human Life, by Avivah Gottleib Zornberg
• Here I Am, by Jonathan Safran Foer

STEPHANIE BUCKHANON CROWDER

• When Momma Speaks: The Bible & Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective, by Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

JOANNE MARIE TERRELL

• An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President, by Randall Robinson