African American Religious Thought: An Anthology

Cornel West, Eddie S. Glaude

Westminster John Knox Press, Jan 1, 2003 - Religion - 1054 pages

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.

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User Review  - Mr T - Christianbook.com

Excellent anthology written by great theological and religious minds. All who read will appreciate the thorough presentation of religious thought across ethnic and cultural lines and know that this is a handbook for many. You will enjoy!

This is an excellent overview.

User Review  - DoctorJ - Christianbook.com

African American Religious Thought is an excellent overview from a unique perspective. This is the only definitive collection of writings from the African American faith community that includes such a ...

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
• Death of the Gods: 239
• The Christian Tradition: 285
• 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
• 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
• 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

About the author

Cornel West holds a joint appointment at the Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard Department of African and African American Studies as Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy. He is the author of several works, including Prophesy Deliverance!

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies and Chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the 2002 Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize for his book Exodus!. His work also includes African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology, coedited with Cornel West.

Bibliographic information

• Title: African American Religious Thought: An Anthology
• Editors: Cornel West, Eddie S. Glaude
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0664224598, 9780664224592
• Length: 1054 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / General; Social Science / Sociology of Religion