Table 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