She will be the featured speaker for this year's Duke Divinity School Martin Luther King Jr. Lectures on April 7 and 8. Womanism expands feminism to take in black women's experiences. Townes will preach at 11 a.m. and lecture at 2 p.m. each day in Duke's York Chapel. Black Health and Health Care in the United States.
All events are free and open to the public.
An ordained American Baptist clergywoman, Townes is an associate professor of Christian social ethics and black church ministries at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Mo. Throughout her teaching and writing, Townes focuses on African-American women in the church, and has written on gospel music, literature, health care, sexuality, AIDS and spirituality. Womanist Spirituality as Social Justice . A Womanist Ethic of Care. Townes received her doctor of ministry degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School and her Ph.D. in religion in society and personality from Northwestern University.