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

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