Dr. Sheppard is the author of two books and co-editor of a collection of essays and sermons in honor of Rev. Dr.Dale Andrews.
Her work consistently elucidates the complex negotiation of race, gender, and sexuality in private and public spaces.
Books
Self, Culture and Others in Womanist Practical Theology places Black women’s experience, psychoanalytic self psychology, and cultural analysis in dialogue to articulate a Womanist Practical theology.
Self, Culture and Others in Womanist Practical Theology
Tilling Sacred Ground: Interiority: Black Women, and Religious Experience
Tilling Sacred Ground: Interiority: Black Women, and Religious Experience, my second book, examines religious experience and its intertwinement with interiority in social spaces and Black women’s negotiation of race, gender, and sexuality in religious spaces.
preaching prophetic care: building bridges to justice
Preaching Prophetic Care: Building Bridges to Justice is a co-edited volume of 27 essays and sermons celebrating the scholarship of Dr. Dale Andrews, a beloved colleague, who was a practical theologian known for his teaching, preaching, and scholarship. In this collection, prophetic preaching, Dale’s commitment to preaching for justice is highlighted.
Other Selected Publications
2022 “Reclaiming Incarnation in Black Life: Black Bodies and Healing Practices in Womanist Pastoral Care,” Journal of Pastoral Theology, accepted for publication, Fall, 2022.
2021 “Navigating Deep Waters: Spirituality and Religion in the Psychodynamic Space.” In Spiritual Diversity and Psychotherapy, (Ed.) Steven J. Sandage, Brad D. Strawn. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
2018 “Womanist Pastoral Theology and Black Women’s Experience of Religion & Sexuality.” In Pastoral theology and Care: Critical Trajectories in Theory and Practice, (Ed.) Nancy Ramsey. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley Press, 125-147.
2018 “Hegemonic Imagination, Historical Ethos, and Colonized Minds in the Pedagogical Space,” Journal of Pastoral Theology 27.3, 181-194.
2016 “Raced Bodies: Portraying Bodies, Reifying Racism.” In Conundrums in Practical Theology, (Eds.) Bonnie Miller-McLemore and Joyce Mercer. Leiden, South Holland: Brill, 219-249.