Table of Contents

Foreword by David E. Daniels
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Pentecostal Retentions from African Spirituality
3 Saved and Sanctified: The Legacy of the Nineteenth-Century Black Holiness Movement
4 The Color Line Was Washed Away in the Blood: William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival
5 What Hath God Wrought: The Rise of African American Trinitarian Pentecostal Denominations
6 God and Christ Are One: Theology and Praxis in African American Oneness Pentecostalism
7 Singing the Lord?s Song in a Strange Land: Blacks in White Pentecostal Denominations
8 If It Wasn?t for the Women: Women's Leadership in African American Pentecostalism
9 I Will Do a New Thing: African American Neo-Pentecostals and Charismatic Movements
10 Conclusion: Historical Realities and Theological Challenges of African American Pentecostalism into the Twenty-first Century
Bibliography of Contemporary Sources on African American Pentecostalism
Name Index
Subject Index
Denominations and Institutions Index

About the Author

Estrelda Y. Alexander (Ph.D., The Catholic University of America) is a visiting professor of theology in the School of Divinity at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and executive director of the William Seymour Educational Foundation.

Reviews

"This book will provide its readers with a valuable overview of important monuments and figures from the past one hundred years. It presents a straightforward account of how African American Pentecostalism developed and changed over time. Because of the scope of this work, it will be helpful for general audiences who want to learn more about this topic or for use in an undergraduate course."
*Monica Reed, H-Net Pentecostalism, May 2014*

"Black Fire provides a much-needed narrative that completes, and at times corrects, the general histories of both American Christianity and the Pentecostal and charismatic movements."
*William Purinton, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 36, No. 2*

"Alexander is one of the few historians of black Pentecostalism who have attempted to synthesize the story of black Pentecostalism within one volume. This is a very challenging task that she does exceptionally well given the myriad number of black Pentecostal denominations. Her work is a first of its kind and a timely, valuable resource for students and scholars of African American religion in general and African American Pentecostalism in particular."
*Jonathan Langston Chism, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, December 2016*