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This anthology provides a coherent, interdisciplinary theoretical base for students of African American religious studies that will assist in the design of programs and courses for lay theological education and training.
List of contents
Preface vii
General Introduction / Gayraud Wilmore xi
Part One Origins, Context, and Conceptualization
Introduction 1
1 The Development of Black Religion in America / C. Eric Lincoln 5
2 Black Church Studies and the Theological Curriculum / James H. Evans, Jr. 22
3 Assessment and New Departures for a Study of Black Religion in the United States of America / Charles H. Long 34
4 Folk Religion and Negro Congregations: The Fifth Religion / Joseph R. Washington, Jr. 50
5 The Religious Ethos of the Universal Negro Improvement Association / Randall K. Burkett 60
6 Black Spiritual Churches: Thaumaturgical Responses to Rascism and Social Stratification / Hans A. Baer 82
Part Two Biblical Studies
Introduction 101
7 Three Thousand Years of Biblical Interpretation with Reference to Black Peoples / Charles B. Copher 105
8 Black experience and the Bible / Robert A. Bennett 129
9 Biblical Historical Study as Liberation: Toward an Afro-Christian Hermeneutic / Vincent L. Wimbush 140
10 The Bible, Re-Contextualization and the Black Religious Experience / Cain H. Felder 155
Part Three Theological and Ethical Studies
Introduction 173
11 Black Theology as Liberation Theology / James H. Cone 177
12 Womanist Theology: Black Women's Experience as a Source for Doing Theology, with Special Reference to Christology / Jacquelyn Grant 208
13 African American Catholics and Black Theology: An Interpretation / M. Shawn Copeland, O.P. 228
14 Religio-Ethical Reflections Upon the Experiential Components of a Philosophy of Black Liberation / J. Deotis Roberts, Sr. 249
Part Four Historical Studies
Introduction 267
15 Black Religion / Maulana Karenga 271
16 The Rise of African Churches in America (1786-1822): Reexamining the Contexts / Will B. Gravely 301
17 Religion and Black Protest Thought in African American History / Manning Marable 318
18 The Muslim Mission in the Context of American Social History / C. Eric Lincoln 340
Part Five Mission and Ministry Studies
Introduction 357
19 Toward a Theology of Black Preaching / Henry H. Mitchell 361
20 The Woman as Preacher / Cheryl J. Sanders 372
21 Singing Praise to God in African American Worship Contexts / Melva W. Costen 392
22 The New Shiloh Saturday Church School / Sid Smith 405
23 Pastoral Counseling and the Black Perspective / Edward P. Wimberly 420
24 Confronting the System / William A. Jones, Jr. 429
Index 457
About the author
Gayraud Wilmore, ed.
