Yale University Library Research Guides: Christian Ethics Guide: Contextual Ethics

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African Christian Ethics by Samuel Waje Kunhiyop An introduction to African Christian Ethics for Christian colleges and Bible schools. The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the theory of ethics, while the second discusses practical issues.
Morality Truly Christian, Truly African (Online) by Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor Brings greater theological clarity to the issue of the relationship between Christianity and African tradition in the area of ethical foundations. Also provides a constructive example of what fundamental moral theology done from an African and Christian (especially Catholic) moral theological point of view could look like.
Moral Issues in Kenya: A Personal View by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye

Latina/o Social Ethics: Moving Beyond Eurocentric Moral Thinking (Online) by Miguel A. de De La Torre Strives to create a liberative ethical approach to the Hispanic experience by using its own tools and materials.
Dignidad: Ethics through Hispanic Eyes by Ismael Garcia Touches on key experiences that can be identified as formative of the ethical view of Hispanics. The experience of migration, the dynamics of social integration, the struggle to define new identity and be faithful to one's cultural heritage are seen as relevant to the formation of the Hispanic moral point of view.
Ethics: A Liberative Approach (Online) by Miguel A. De La Torre (Editor) A survey text for religious ethics and theological ethics courses that explores how ethical concepts defined as liberationist is presently manifest around the globe and within the United States across different racial, ethnic, and gender groups.

Black Womanist Ethics by Katie Geneva Cannon Articulates the distinctive moral character of the Afro-American women's community.
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk (Online) by Delores S. Williams A classic text in womanist theology. Drawing on the biblical figure of Hagar, mother of Ishmael, Williams finds a prototype for the struggle of African-American women.
Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon (Online) by Eboni Marshall Turman The Black Church is an institution that emerged in rebellion against injustice perpetrated upon black bodies. How is it, then, that black women's oppression persists in black churches? This book engages the Chalcedonian Definition as the starting point for exploring the body as a moral dilemma.
Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil (Online) by Emilie M. Townes This groundbreaking book provides an analytical tool to understand how and why evil works in the world as it does. Deconstructing memory, history, and myth as received wisdom, the volume critically examines racism, sexism, poverty, and stereotypes.

A Theology of Southeast Asia: Liberation-Postcolonial Ethics in the Phillippines by Agnes M. Brazal Fills several gaps in theological research and ethics, such as the absence of postcolonial theological ethics in the Philippine context and the lack of attention in liberation-postcolonial discourse to structural and systemic dimensions of power.
Transformative Theological Ethics: East Asian Contexts by Agnes M. Brazal ... [et al.], editors.
Asian American Christian Ethics by Grace Y. Kao (Editor); Ilsup Ahn (Editor) Rethinks perennial issues in Christian ethics (war and peace, family/marriage/parenting, gender and sexuality, economics and wealth, virtue ethics), pressing social matters (race relations, immigration, healthcare, the environment), and issues of special interest to Asian Americans (education, labor, plastic surgery).

Resistance and Theological Ethics by Ronald H. Stone (Editor) Collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian Social Witness in Geneva, Switzerland and southern France in 1999. A call for the church to stand in resistance to social, economic and political forces that threaten--while embracing those that foster--social justice, peace and human welfare.
The Liberating Spirit: Toward an Hispanic American Pentecostal Social Ethic by Eldin Villafane Constructs a social ethic for the Hispanic Pentecostal Church in the United States that seeks to cohere with the Hispanic American socio-cultural experience as well as be consistent with Hispanic Pentecostalism's self understanding of ethics emerging from its experience of the Spirit.
Liberation Ethics: Sources, Models, and Norms by Thomas L. Schubeck A comprehensive assessment of the ethical import of the liberation theological movement. Offers a critical yet sympathetic evaluation of liberation theology's normative content by looking at how liberation theologians actually use their foundational sources-praxis, social analysis, and Scripture.
God of the Oppressed (Online) by James H. Cone Relates the gospel message to the experience of the black community. But a wider theme of the book is the role that social and historical context plays in framing the questions we address to God as well as the mode of the answers provided.

A Feminist Ethic of Risk by Sharon Welch Proposes a new model for ethics and new life orientation for social justice. Her ethic uproots classical assumptions and opens up the possibility of a strong religious vision or "theology of resistance and hope."
Virtuous Woman: Reflections on Christian Feminist Ethics by Denise L. Carmody
An Invitation to Feminist Ethics (Online) by Hilde Lindemann Introduces students to the body of work in feminist ethics, clarifies the need for this approach to ethics, and explores three social practices--health care, violence, and globalization--within which the need for a feminist ethics is most urgent.
Feminist Theological Ethics by Lois K. Daly (Editor) Considers the task of changing society's assumptions about women, analyses ways to challenge our culture's tradition, and explores ways in which we can live together in the modern world.