Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS
African Indigenous Churches
The Church of the Lord (Aladura)
The Cherubim and Seraphim Church
The Church of Jesus Christ on Earth (Zaire)
Zionist Churches in South Africa
Church of Christ in Africa (Kenya)
Ingigenous Elements of Worship
Caribbean Indigenous Religions and Churches
Haitian Voodoo
Cuban Santeria
Trinidadian Shango
Jamaican Churches and Traditional Religions
º Native Baptists
º Myalism
º Kumina
º Jamaican Revivalism
Liberation Theologies in Afro Cultures
South Africa's Apartheid Culture
South African Liberation Theology
Caribbean Liberation Theology (Rastafarianism)
PART TWO: AN AFRO GRAMMAR OF FAITH
Christian Theology and Afro Cultures
Culture and the Grammer of Faith
Salvation, Sin, and Death in Afro Cultures
God: Traditional Motifs
God in African Traditional Religion
Attributes of God
º Divine Ubiquity
º Divine Creator
º Divine Pastoral Care
The Religious Worldview of Africans
Christ: A Son Out of Egypt
Boundaries of Christology
Christ as the Anointment One
Christ as Lord of the Heavens
Christ as Healer
The Liberator and the Liberated
Spirit and Spirits: Pneumatology and Afro Cultures
The Biblical Tradition
The Dogmatic Tradition
The African Tradition
Evil Spirits and Lordship in Afro Cultures
The Spirit and Black American Religion
Spirits in Black Culture
Ancestors and Saints
Hagiolatry and the Ancestors
º Ancestorship in the Caribbean
º Ancestors and Black American Religion
Hagiography: Christian Saints and the Ancestors
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Robert E. Hood (1936-1994) was Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Center for African-American Studies at Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.
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