In this post, I recommend a list of 42 books on the relationship between theology and race, and racial reconciliation and harmony. These texts treat the subject matter of racial reconciliation and harmony from an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspective. While some of these books offer the theoretical, historical, and cultural perspective to this matter, other books on the list offer a very practical, biblicallly- and theologically- sensitive approach to this subject.
Readings in Theology and Race, and Racial Reconciliation and Harmony
- Race: A Theological Account by J. Kameron Cater
- From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race by J. Daniel Hays
- Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel by Russell D. Moore
- Liberation And Reconciliation: A Black Theology by J. Deotis Roberts
- The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race by Willie James Jennings
- The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity by Soong-Chan Rah
- Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity by Brian Bantum
- Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations: Global Awakenings in Theology and Praxis by Kay Higuera Smith and Jayachitra Lalitha
- Prophetic Rage (Prophetic Christianity Series by Johnny Bernard Hill
- One New Man: The Cross and Racial Reconciliation in Pauline Theology by Jarvis Williams
- The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America by Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey
- Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just by Timothy Keller
- The Death of Race: Building a New Christianity in a Racial World by Brian Bantum
- Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church by Soong-Chan Rah
- Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong-Chan Rah
- Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations: Global Awakenings in Theology and Praxis by Kay Higuera Smith and Jayachitra Lalitha
- Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship by Peter Slade
- Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism by Drew G. I. Hart
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
- This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith by Robert J. Priest
- The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness by Raphael G. Warnock
- Racializing Jesus: Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship by Shawn Kelley
- Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation by Jennifer Harvey
- American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell
- The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation by Stephen R. Haynes
- White Theology: Outing Supremacy in Modernity by J. Perkinson
- Disrupting White Supremacy from Within by Jennifer Harvey, Karin A. Case, and Robin Hawley Gorsline
- The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches by Korie L. Edwards
- Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian Hardcover by John Piper
- Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church by Doug Serven
- Oneness Embraced: Reconciliation, the Kingdom, and How We are Stronger Together by Tony Evans
- Transcending Racial Barriers: Toward a Mutual Obligations Approach by Michael O. Emerson and George Yancey
- Free at Last?: The Gospel in the African-American Experience Carl F. Ellis Jr.
- Transcending Racial Barriers: Toward a Mutual Obligations Approach by Michael O. Emerson and George Yancey
- People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States by Michael O. Emerson
- Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions by Jason E. Shelton and Michael O. O. Emerson
- Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship, and Faith in the Heart of the South by Chris P. Rice
- The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change by Brenda Salter McNeil
- Embracing the Other: The Transformative Spirit of Love by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
- Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness by Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Vanier
- Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing by Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice
- More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel by Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice