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Katie Cannon (Katie Geneva Cannon) was born on 3 January, 1950 in Kannapolis, North Carolina, US, is an American theologian (1950–2018). Discover Katie Cannon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 3 January, 1950
Birthday 3 January
Birthplace Kannapolis, North Carolina, US
Date of death 8 August, 2018
Died Place Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1950

Katie Geneva Cannon (January 3, 1950 – August 8, 2018) was an American Christian theologian and ethicist associated with womanist theology and black theology.

Born on January 3, 1950, Cannon spent her childhood in Kannapolis, North Carolina, a racially segregated community where she could not use local facilities such as the YMCA, swimming pool or library.

She was the daughter of the late Esau Cannon and Emanuelette Corine Lytle Cannon, the first woman to work at the Cannon Mills in Kannapolis.

Both her parents were elders in the Presbyterian Church, but she was enrolled in kindergarten at a Lutheran church, the only early childhood education available to her in Kannapolis as a black girl.

Cannon had six brothers and sisters.

1967

Cannon graduated from George Washington Carver High School in 1967 as her class's salutatorian.

Cannon graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Barber–Scotia College, followed by a Master of Divinity from Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and both a Master's and Doctor of Philosophy degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York.

1974

In 1974 she became the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA).

Cannon was ordained on April 24, 1974, in Shelby, North Carolina, by the Catawba Presbytery, in the Synod of Catawba.

This made her the first African-American woman to be ordained in the United Presbyterian Church (USA).

Cannon worked at Ascension Presbyterian Church in East Harlem, New York.

1988

The task of the womanist ethicist, she insisted, is to uncover and comprehend it."Cannon's first full-length book, Black Womanist Ethics, published in 1988, was a groundbreaking text, and is considered to have launched the field of womanist ethics.

2001

Cannon began teaching at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond in 2001.

She held the position of the Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Social Ethics.

Prior to joining the faculty at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Cannon was on the faculties of Temple University, Episcopal Divinity School, and Harvard Divinity School.

She was also the Lilly Distinguished Visiting Professor of Religion at Davidson College and the Sterling Brown Visiting Professor in Religion and African American Studies at Williams College.

In addition to her breaking ground as an African American woman scholar of religion, Cannon collaborated with African women scholars of religion, including Mercy Amba Oduyoye.

Cannon was one of few African American women present at the founding meeting of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians.

2004

From 2004 to 2008, she served as president of the Society for the Study of Black Religion.

Cannon received the distinguished professor award from Spelman College, the Lucy Craft Laney Award at the Black Presbyterian Bicentennial Celebration, and was a professor-scholar honoree at the National Black Church Summit at Emory University.

She received the Beautiful Are The Feet Award from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference.

2011

The American Academy of Religion honored Cannon with its 2011 Excellence in Teaching Award.

2012

In 2012, Cannon began serving as executive director of the Squaring the Womanist Circle Project at Union Presbyterian Seminary.

Following from the research results produced by the project, Cannon worked with the administration of Union Presbyterian Seminary and several foundations to establish The Center For Womanist Leadership at Union Presbyterian Seminary.

The center is the first of its kind at any theological academic institution in the United States.

2018

In 2018, Cannon was honored at the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s General Assembly, receiving the Excellence in Theological Education Award.

As her last living will and testament, Cannon founded and organized the Center for Womanist Leadership at Union Presbyterian Seminary in April 2018, which was later endowed and renamed The Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership.

Cannon died on August 8, 2018.

Cannon is widely regarded as one of the founders of womanist theology and ethics.

In reflecting on her legacy, scholar Traci C. West notes Cannon's emphasis on using black women's embodied knowledge as a source for ethical reflection: "In her analytical approach, one finds a sharp conceptualization of both the strength and vulnerability of black women especially evident in their collisions with white supremacy. Katie Cannon's scholarship reveals the ugliness of white racism and how it preys on black women's human vulnerabilities. To reveal the ugliness demands courage because it is so painful. The reflective process of unravelling the impact of racist patterns, as well as the commitment to remaining focused on them and inviting others to do so too, requires scholarly and spiritual stamina. Katie Cannon's work provides us with historically rooted, geopolitically situated, and intimate examples of black women's epistemological strength. She depicts black women's embodied knowledge as a creative force.

Cannon died from acute leukemia in Richmond, Virginia on August 8, 2018.

She was 68.