In 2006, 'The Womanist Reader' broke new ground as the first ever anthology dedicated solely to womanist thought. Collectively, the contents of 'The Womanist Reader' demonstrated that womanism is undergirded by an architecture of thought and practice awaiting elaboration. Such elaboration is the purpose of this book.

Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism, including a detailed discussion of the womanist worldview (cosmology, ontology, epistemology, logic, axiology, and methodology) and its implications for activism. From a womanist perspective, social and ecological change is necessarily undergirded by spirituality - as distinct from religion per se - which invokes a metaphysically informed approach to activism.