African American Religious Studies

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