Passion of the Lord

This is a wonderful collection of essays of African American responses to Mel Gibson's _The Passion of the Christ_. Essayists, including JoAnne Terrell and Demetrius Williams, demonstrate how black women and men can make sense of the connections between the violence committed against Christ and that historically against African Americans. What you find here is more than a critique of Gibson's film. The essays are calls for hope and inspiration. They see Jesus' life as important as his death and detail the various ways that African Americans overcome violence to have lives of faith. This book should be read by anyone interested in race and religion in the United States.