Karen Baker-Fletcher

Baker-Fletcher's scholarship approaches the narratives of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus through a womanist lens that privileges the lived experiences of Black women. Her research interests include process theism, womanist theology, Wesleyan theology, ecotheology, and cultural studies.^[2] In her 2006 book Dancing with God, she examines the Trinity in relation to the reality of unnecessary violence. Christology and creation are recurring theological themes in her scholarship.^[3]

Baker-Fletcher is currently Professor of Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology. She has previously taught at Claremont School of Theology in California.

Baker-Fletcher delivered an Antoinette Brown Lecture at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.^[4] Baker-Fletcher is a member of the Society for the Study of Black Religion.^[1]

• Inspired Dust, Resurrected Dust: Womanist Reflections on Resurrection (forthcoming)
• Homemade Psalms—Womanist Poetry and Prose (forthcoming)^[2]
• Dancing With God: A Womanist Perspective on the Trinity (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2006)
• Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998)
• My Sister, My Brother: Womanist and Xodus God-Talk (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1997) (with Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher)
• A Singing Something: Womanist Reflections on Anna Julia Cooper (New York: Crossroad, 1994)^[1]