African American Religious Thought: An AnthologyCornel West, Eddie S. Glaude Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future. Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of African Americans need not be reduced to expressions of black religion, West and Glaude call for more careful reflection on the complex relationships of African American religious studies to conceptions of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, empire, and other values that continue to challenge our democratic ideals. |
Contents
Of the Faith of the Fathers | 3 |
Origins of the Church | 14 |
The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death | 29 |
The Negro Church and Assimilation | 62 |
Alienation | 77 |
Authority Alienation and Social Death | 99 |
The Racial Factor in the Shaping of Religion | 156 |
Assessment and New Departures for a Study | 221 |
The Black Roots of Pentecostalism | 616 |
Womens Traditions | 629 |
From The Luminous Darkness | 679 |
Martin Luther King Jr and the AfricanAmerican | 696 |
The Religion of Black Power | 715 |
Integrationism and Nationalism | 746 |
A Sense of Urgency | 765 |
A Theological Interpretation | 775 |
Death of the Gods | 239 |
The Christian Tradition | 285 |
Black Conversion and White Sensibility | 291 |
Religious Foundations of the Black Nation | 301 |
Exodus | 309 |
Of the Black Church and the Making of a Black Public | 338 |
Theorizing AfricanAmerican | 366 |
The Making of a Church with the Soul of a Nation | 414 |
Migration Urbanization | 475 |
Religious Diversification during the | 495 |
Black Muslims | 534 |
Religious Ethos of the UNIA | 550 |
Marcus Garvey Father Divine and the Gender Politics | 572 |
Charles Manuel Sweet Daddy Grace | 605 |
Slave Theology in the Invisible Institution | 790 |
Black Theology and the Black Woman | 831 |
The Unacknowledged Threshold | 849 |
Black Theology and Marxist Thought | 874 |
Ontological Blackness in Theology | 893 |
Jesse Jackson and the Symbolic Politics | 921 |
Vodou | 942 |
Black Religion | 978 |
Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Black Church | 996 |
Race Religion | 1019 |
The Prophetic Tradition in AfroAmerica | 1037 |
Permissions Acknowledgments | 1051 |
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