This volume examines the complex ways religion is present in Black Lives Matter Movement and the way the movement is changing religion. The book argues that Movement for Black Lives is changing and challenging our understanding of religious experience and communities.

Foreword, Emilie TownesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Teresa L. Smallwood and Christophe D. RingerPart One: Black Public Theology Chapter One: “Today is Not My Day to Die”: Public Theology, Precarious Lives, and the Politics of the Streets, Michael Brandon McCormack and Stachelle BusseyChapter Two: Black Lives Matter: A Black Theological Hauntology, Charlene Sinclair Chapter Three: Their Words Became Flesh, Teresa L. SmallwoodChapter Four: We Gon’ Be Alright: Public Theology, Subjectivity and Experiencing the Sacred in the Movement for Black Lives, Christophe D. RingerPart Two: Black Humanity Chapter Five: Self-Amending Blackness and The Movement for Black Lives: Justice and Leadership in Liberatory Spaces, Forrest E. HarrisChapter Six: On In(Visibilities), José Francisco Morales TorresChapter Seven: The Emergence of the Black Buddhist Radical Tradition, Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Rima Vesely-FladPart Three: Black Churches Chapter Eight: The Black Church Movement Profile is Dead: The Audacious Absurdity of Transgressive Imagination Between “The American Dream” and the Nightemare, Tamura LomaxChapter Nine: Walk Together Children: Lessons in Unity, Leah D. Daughtry Chapter Ten: Slain…in the Spirit: A Black Womanist Pneumatological Aesthetic of the Movement for Black Lives, Eboni Marshall TurmanPart Four: Black Religious CultureChapter Eleven: Preaching Wholeness for Black Lives, Debra MumfordChapter Twelve: Envisioning Justice Beyond Resistance: Black Lives Matter & Aretha Franklin’s “Mary Don’t You Weep”, Herbert R. MarburyChapter Thirteen: Keeping the Waters Troubled for a Better Day: A Dialectic of Resistance and Restoration in the Movement for Black Lives, Scott C. Williamson Part Five: Bearing Witness for Black LivesChapter Fourteen: “My God is Black, My God is Female”: Rhetoric, Race and the Spirituality of Black Lives Matter, Andre E. Johnson Chapter Fifteen: An Epistle on Ferguson, Osagyefo SekouChapter Sixteen: Reading the Fine Print: Evaluating our Commitment to All Black Lives, Leslie CallahanChapter Seventeen: A Call to Heal, Traci BlackmonAfterword, Victor Anderson IndexAbout the Contributors