Introduction: Toni Morrison's religion --
"Goodness : Altruism and the literary imagination," Ingersoll Lecture 2012 / Toni Morrison --
I. Significant landscapes and sacred places. Haunted by slavery / Walter Johnson ; Ọmọ Òpìtańdìran, an Africanist griot : Toni Morrison and African epistemology, myths, and literary culture / Jacob K. Olupona ; Structures of stone and rings of light : spirited landscapes in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Tiya Miles --
II. Putting goodness onstage. Evocations of intimacies : comments on Toni Morrison's Home / Charles H. Long ; Morrison's pietàs as participatory loss and love / Mara Willard ; The ghost of Love and goodness / Davíd Carrasco ; Demons and dominion : possession and dispossession in Toni Morrison's A mercy / Matthew Potts --
III. Giving goodness a voice. Ministry in Paradise / Stephanie Paulsell ; Luminous darkness : Africanist presence and the American soul / Jonathan L. Walton ; Going backstage : Soaphead Church and the (religious) problem of goodness in The bluest eye / Biko Mandela Gray ; Unsung no more : Pilate's mercy! Eulogy in Song of Solomon / Gerald "Jay" Williams ; Quiet, as it's kept and lovingly disrupted by Baby Suggs, Holy : on the volume of goodness in Beloved / Josslyn Luckett --
Writing goodness and mercy : a 2017 interview with Toni Morrison.
