Introduction: Towards New Visions and New Approaches in African American Religious Studies

Cornel West

Eddie S. Claude Jr.

Part 1. Prehistory of African American Religious Studies

1. Of the Faith of the Fathers

W.E.B. Du Bois

2. Origins of the Church

Benjamin Elijah Mays and Joseph William Nicholson

3. The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death

Love

Howard Thurman

4. The Negro Church and Assimilation

E. Franklin Frazier

Part 2. Theorizing African American Religion

5. American Africans in Conflict: Alienation in an Insecure Culture

Cornel West

6. Authority, Alienation, and Social Death

Orlando Patterson

7. The Racial Factor in the Shaping of Religion in America

C. Eric Lincoln

8. The Black Church: A Gender Perspective

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

9. The Central Themes of American Religious History: Pluralism, Puritanism, and the Encounter of Black and White

David W. Wills

10. Assessment and New Departures for a Study of Black Religion in the United States of America

Charles H. Long

Part 3. Slavery and a Black Religious Imagination

11. Death of the Gods

Albert J. Raboteau

12. The Christian Tradition

Black Conversion and White Sensibility

Religious Foundations of the Black Nation

Eugene Genovese

13. Exodus

Theophus H. Smith

14. Of the Black Church and the Making of a Black Public

Eddie S. Claude Jr.

15. "Doers of the Word": Theorizing African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the Antebellum North

Carla L. Peterson

Part 4. Black Destiny and the End of the Nineteenth Century

16. "Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hands": Black Destiny in Nineteenth-Century America

Albert J. Raboteau

17. The Making of a Church with the Soul of a Nation, 1880-1889

James Melvin Washington

18. Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom

Elsa Barkley Brown

Part S. The Interwar Period: Migration, Urbanization, and Black Religious Diversity

19. Racial Christianity

S.P. Fullinwider

20. Religious Diversification during the Era of Advanced Industrial Capitalism

Hans A. Baer and Merrill Singer

21. Chosen Peoples of the Metropolis: Black Muslims, Black Jews, and Others

Wilson Jeremiah Moses

22. Religious Ethos of the UNTA

Randall K. Burkett

23. Marcus Garvey, Father Divine, and the Gender Politics of Race Difference and Race Neutrality

Beryl Satter

24. Charles Manuel "Sweet Daddy" Grace

John O. Hodges

25. The Black Roots of Pentecostalism

Iain MacRobert

26. "Together and in Harness": Women's Traditions in the Sanctified Church

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

27. Reverend George Washington Woodbey: Early Twentieth-Century California Black Socialist

Philip S. Foner

Part 6. Black Religion and the 1960's

28. From The Luminous Darkness

Howard Thurman

29. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the African-American Social Gospel

Clayborne Carson

30. The Religion of Black Power

Vincent Harding

31. Integrationism and Nationalism in African-American Intellectual History

James H. Cone

Part 7. Black Theology and Its Critics

32. A Sense of Urgency

Albert B. Cleage Jr.

33. Black Spirituals: A Theological Interpretation

James H. Cone

34. Slave Theology in the "Invisible Institution"

Dwight N. Hopkins

35. Black Theology and the Black Woman

Jacquelyn Grant

36. Divine Racism: The Unacknowledged Threshold Issue for Black Theology

James Cone: God, Champion of the Oppressed

William R. Jones

37. Black Theology and Marxist Thought

Cornet West

38. Ontological Blackness in Theology

Victor Anderson

Part 8. African American Religion and Cultural Criticism

39. Jesse Jackson and the Symbolic Politics of Black Christendom

James Melvin Washington

40. The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism

Elizabeth McAlister

41. Rethinking Vernacular Culture: Black Religion and Race Records in the 1920's and 1930's

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

42. Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Black Church and Community

Kelly Brown Douglas

43. For Rent, "Cabin in the Sky": Race, Religion, and Representational Quagmires in American Film

Judith Weisenfeld

44. The Prophetic Tradition in Afro-America

Cornet West

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