African American Religious Studies: An Interdisciplinary Anthology

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Gayraud S. Wilmore
Duke University Press, 1989 - 468 pages
This anthology provides a coherent, interdisciplinary theoretical base for students of African American religious studies and will assist in the design of programs and courses for lay theological education and training. To this end, the editor has assembled material from Old and New Testament studies, theology, church history, pastoral counseling, worship, and social action.
 

Contents

Part One Origins Context and Conceptualization
1
Black Church Studies and the Theological Curriculum
22
Assessment and New Departures for a Study of Black Religion in
34
The Fifth Religion Joseph
50
The Religious Ethos of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
60
Thaumaturgical Responses to Racism
82
Introduction
101
Black Experience and the Bible Robert A Bennett
129
ReligioEthical Reflections Upon the Experiential Components of
249
Introduction
267
Reexamining
301
Religion and Black Protest Thought in African American History
318
The Muslim Mission in the Context of American Social History
340
Part Five Mission and Ministry Studies
357
The Woman as Preacher Cheryl J Sanders
372
Singing Praise to God in African American Worship Contexts
392

Toward an AfroChristian
140
The Bible ReContextualization and the Black Religious Experience
155
Introduction
173
Black Womens Experience as a Source for Doing
208
An Interpretation
228
The New Shiloh Saturday Church School Sid Smith
405
Pastoral Counseling and the Black Perspective Edward
420
Confronting the System William A Jones Jr
429
Index
457
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