Eboni Marshall Turman, Assistant Research Professor of Divinity School and African & African American Studies and Director of the Office of Black Church Studies

Please note: Eboni has left the "African & African American Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

A native of New York, Professor Marshall Turman served as the assistant minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City for ten years. She is the youngest woman to be licensed and ordained by, and the second woman to preside over the ordinances in Abyssinian’s 205-year history.

Her primary teaching interests span the breadth of social ethics as a discipline, especially 20th century social ethics and the historical development of American theological liberalism; liberation theology and ethics; sexual ethics, and postcolonial ethics. Her current research interests include womanist/feminist liberation theology and ethics, black church studies, difference theory, and W.E.B. DuBois. In addition to her various articles, Marshall Turman has a forthcoming book, Moving the Body: Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation (Palgrave MacMillan), and is currently working on her second book project, titled Prophetic Disruptions: Sexism and the Black Church.

Prior to coming to Duke, Professor Marshall Turman taught theology and ethics at Hood Theological Seminary in Salisbury, N.C., and Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, respectively. She is an ordained minister in the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., and is regularly called upon to preach and teach from pulpits across the nation.

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Education:

Ph.D.

Union Theological Seminary

2010

Keywords:

African American churches • African American women • feminist theology • Feminist Theology • liberalism (religion)--protestant churches--history--20th century • Liberalism (religion)--protestant Churches--history--20th Century • liberation theology • Liberation Theology • postcolonial theology • Postcolonial Theology • social ethics • Social Ethics • social gospel • Social Gospel • womanist theology • Womanist Theology

Recent Publications

1. E Marshall Turman, Heave and Hell in African American Theology, in The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology, manual (August, 2014), pp. 528 pages, Oxford University Press
2. E Marshall Turman, Black and Blue: Uncovering the Ecclesial Cover-Up of Black Women's Bodies through a Reimagining of the Doctrine of the Incarnation, in Reimagining with Christian Doctrines: Responding to Global Gender Injustices, manual (2014), pp. 140 pages, Palgrave Pivot
3. E Marshall Turman, Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation, manual (December, 2013), pp. 214 pages, Palgrave Macmillan  [abs]