Annotated Book Titles: 2023–2024 and Journals

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• Annotated Book Titles:2023–2024 and Journals

Decolonial Pluriversalism. Edited by Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. Pp. 190. Paper. The Unfinished Search for Common Ground: Reimagining Howard Thurman's Life and Work. Edited by Walter Earl Fluker. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2023. Pp. 256. Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue. Edited by David Hilborn and Simo Frestadius. Foreword by Justin Welby. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, Pickwick Publications, 2023. Pp. 356. Cloth and paper. Vanessa Lovelace, A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider Within. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. Pp. 180. Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein, The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Pp. 244. Cloth. Anglican-Methodist Ecumenism: The Search for Church Unity, 1920–2020. Edited by Jane Platt and Martin Wellings. New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2023. Pp. 273. Paper. Stanley Jayakumar Yesudass, An Ecumenical Odyssey: Exploring the Redaction and the Reception of The Church: Towards a Common Vision. Plainfield, IN: Cokesbury, 2023. Pp. 474. Paper. Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling. Edited by Rebecca L. Young. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2024. Pp. 254.

All annotations are paraphrased from the publishers' descriptions.

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Decolonial Pluriversalism. Edited by Zahra Ali and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. Pp. 190. Paper.

Decolonial Pluriversalism offers a unique, powerful, and crucial perspective on decolonial theories, political thoughts, aesthetics, and activisms. In going beyond a postcolonial critique of eurocentrism, it provides some of the most original interventions in the field of decolonial theory. Drawing from the Francophone worlds and Latin American and Caribbean philosophies, it explores concepts of creolization, racialization, Afropean aesthetics, arts and cultural productions, feminisms, fashion, education, and architecture.

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The Unfinished Search for Common Ground: Reimagining Howard Thurman's Life and Work. Edited by Walter Earl Fluker. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2023. Pp. 256.

This book aims to summarize the life and work of Howard Thurman while also stimulating Thurman scholars in their ongoing explorations of his importance. One of the leading religious figures of twentieth-century America, Thurman was one of the first prominent African American pacifists, including participants across many differing Christian communities. He led the first delegation of African Americans to meet with Mahatma Gandhi in 1936, and his theology of radical nonviolence, outlined in Jesus and the Disinherited (1949), influenced and shaped a generation of ecumenically minded civil rights activists. His insistence on the integrity and centrality of personal religious experience was communicated for a half-century in books and through his personal presence, which continue to have an impact on religious thought and spiritual practice. [End Page 449]

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Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue. Edited by David Hilborn and Simo Frestadius. Foreword by Justin Welby. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, Pickwick Publications, 2023. Pp. 356. Cloth and paper.

This is the first comprehensive book on Anglican and Pentecostal ecumenical relations. It introduces both movements with a particular focus on their approaches to ecumenism, before exploring sacraments, ministry, ecclesiology, pneumatology, and mission with respect to both traditions. As well as providing more theological and historical discussion, the book also offers personal accounts of local, national, and international ecumenical engagement by both Anglicans and Pentecostals. It is written predominantly—although not exclusively—rom a British perspective. Even so, as the first major published dialogue between these two global Christian traditions, the book will be of value to all interested in Anglicanism, Pentecostalism, and ecumenism.

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Vanessa Lovelace, A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider Within. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. Pp. 180.

The U.S. Declaration of Independence of 1776 decreed that all people were created equal and were endowed by their Creator with "certain unalienable Rights." Yet, U.S.-born free and enslaved Black people were not recognized as citizens with "equal protections under the law" until the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. Even then, white supremacists impeded the equal rights of Black people as citizens due to their beliefs in the inferiority of Black people and that America was a nation for white people. White supremacists...