- The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois
- African American History and Devotionals, Teresa Fry Brown
- Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God
- Go Tell It On The Mountain, James Baldwin
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James Cone
- The African American Century, Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates
- Knowing Christ Crucified, M. Shawn Copeland
- Our Lives Matter, Pamela Lightsey
- A Testament of Hope, Martin Luther King Jr,
- Just A Sister Away, Renita Weems
- Blood Done Sign My Name, Tim Tyson
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Roots, Alex Haley
- Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839, Fanny Kemble
- The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
- To Die For The People, Huey Newton
- An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
- Proud Shoes, Pauli Murray
- Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
- Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
- The Third Reconstruction, William Barber
- Enfleshing Freedom, M. Shawn Copeland
- Were You There? David Goatley
- Making A Way Out of No Way, Monica Coleman
- Katie’s Canon, Katie Geneva Canon
- Deeper Shades of Purple, ed. Stacey Floyd Thomas
- MARCH, vol. I, vol. II, and vol. III, John Lewis
- Breathe: A Letter To My Sons, Imani Perry
- Word, Like Fire, Valerie Cooper
- This Far by Faith, Quinton Dixie and Juan Willians
- Economic Ethics and The Black Church, Wylin D. Wilson
Reading List: Latin/x and Mujerista Theology
Books (and where to find them)
- En La Lucha, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz — Ten-year anniversary edition — First edition
- A Reader in Feminist Latina Theology: Religion and Justice — Print — Electronic
- Mujerista Theology, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz — Print — Electronic
- Our Cry for Life: Feminist Theology from Latin America, Maria Pilar Aquino — Print
- Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria E. Anzaldua — Print
- A Theology of Liberation, Gustavo Gutierrez — Print — Electronic
- The Mestizo Augustine: A Theologian Between Two Cultures: Justo Gonzales — Electronic
- Mañana : Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective, Justo L. González — Print
- The Faith of the People: Theological Reflections on Popular Catholicism by Orlando O. Espín — Print
- From the Heart of Our People: Latino/a Explorations in Catholic Systematic Theology, edited by Orlando O. Espín and Miguel H. Díaz — Print
- Reading the Bible From the Margins by Miguel De La Torre — Print
- Theologizing en Espanglish by Carmen Nanko-Fernández — Electronic
- Christ Outside the Gate by Orlando Costas — Print
- Ignacio Ellacuria: Essays on History, Liberation, and Salvation, edited by Michael E. Lee — Print
- Good News from the Barrio: Prophetic Witness for the Church by Harold Recinos — Print
- The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Latino/a Theology — Electronic
- In Our Own Voices: Latino/a Renditions of Theology, edited by Benjamín Valentín — Print — Electronic
- The Gospel of Cesar Chavez by Mario Garcia and Virgil Elizondo — Print
- Indecent Theology by Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid — Print — Electronic
- Latinas Evangélicas by Loida I. Martell-Otero, Zaida Maldonado Perez, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier — Print
- Galilean Journey: The Mexican-American Promise by Virgil Elizondo — Print
- Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation by Ivone Gebara — Print
- Decolonizing Biblical Studies: A View from the Margins by Fernando F. Segovia — Print
- Faith Formation and Popular Religion: Lessons from the Tejano Experience by Anita de Luna — Print
- Freedom Made Flesh: Mission of Christ and His Church by Ignacio Ellacuria — Print
- Mestizo Christianity: Theology from the Latino Perspective by Arturo J. Bañuelas — Print
- Caminemos con Jesus by Roberto S. Goizueta — Print
- Creada a su imagen: Una pastoral integral para la mujer, Agustina Luvis Núñez
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings — Print
- Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology, Clara Luz Ajo Lázaro — Print
- Evangelicals in Mexico: Their Hymnody and Its Theology, Dinorah B. Méndez — Print
- Hispanic Bible Institutes: A Community of Theological Construction, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier — Print
- A Many Colored Kingdom: Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
Forma para pedir libros desde el Library Service Center (LSC) como visitante
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Sojourners’ Latinx Theology Reading List: https://sojo.net/articles/latinx-theology-reading-list
The Global Church Project: 18 Latin American Female Theologians you should know about: https://theglobalchurchproject.com/18-latin-american-female-theologians-know/
SPANISH-LANGUAGE or LATIN/X THEOLOGY WEBSITES, DATABASES, and JOURNALS
- The Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Project
- Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa (dissertations completed in Spain)
- Antigüedad y Cristianismo
- Caminhando (revista published by the School of Theology at the Methodist University of Sao Paolo — in Portuguese)
- Ciencias Sociales y Religión/Ciências Sociais e Religião (CS&R)
- Estudos Teologicos (Portuguese)
- Humanitas (revista de antropología y cultura cristiana)
- Ignaziana (from the Centro de Espiritualidad Ignaciana de la Pontificia Universidad Gregoriana in Rome)
- Ilu: Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones
- Revista Batista Pioneira: Biblia, Teologia, Pratica (Portuguese)
- Revista: Cultura & Religion
- Sociedades Biblicas Unidas: Traduccion de la Biblia
- Biblioteca de la Iglesia Reformada: Biblias, Catecismos, y Obras Reformadas
- Colección Latinoamericana del Seminario Teológico de Princeton: Books and Periodicals
- RIBLA – Revista de Interpretacion de la Biblia Latinoamericana
Summer 2018 Reading Suggestions
Ah, summer… Long days, warm temperatures, and far too many mosquitoes.
Let’s go back inside and read!
Wherever you find yourself this summer, we at the Divinity Library hope you are getting an opportunity to rest and recharge, and rediscover the joy of reading without the pressure of class deadlines. To that end, what follows is a short list of recommendations for summer reading, compiled with the help of the faculty and staff at Duke Divinity School. Happy reading!
Novels:
C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Spiritual Writings:
Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart
Pauli Murray: selected sermons and writings
Essays and Stories:
Wendell Berry, The art of loading brush: new agrarian writings
History:
Judith Herrin, Byzantium: the surprising life of a medieval empire
Harry S. Stout, Upon the altar of the nation: a moral history of the American Civil War
What else have you been reading this summer? Let us know in the comments!