African American religious thought: an anthology

Introduction : Towards New Visions and New Approaches in African American Religious Studies / Cornel West, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Part 1. Prehistory of African American Religious Studies

Of the Faith of the Fathers / W.E.B. Du Bois

Origins of the Church / Benjamin Elijah Mays and Joseph William Nicholson

The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death Love / Howard Thurman

The Negro Church and Assimilation / E. Franklin Frazier

Part 2. Theorizing African American Religion

American Africans in Conflict : Alienation in an Insecure Culture / Cornel West

Authority, Alienation, and Social Death / Orlando Patterson

The Racial Factor in the Shaping of Religion in America / C. Eric Lincoln

The Black Church : A Gender Perspective / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

The Central Themes of American Religious History : Pluralism, Puritanism, and the Encounter of Black and White / David W. Wills

Assessment and New Departures for a Study of Black Religion in the United States of America / Charles H. Long

Part 3. Slavery and a Black Religious Imagination

Death of the Gods / Albert J. Raboteau

The Christian Tradition : Black Conversion and White Sensibility : Religious Foundations of the Black Nation / Eugene Genovese

Exodus / Theophus H. Smith

Of the Black Church and the Making of a Black Public / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

"Doers of the Word" : Theorizing African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the Antebellum North / Carla L. Peterson

Part 4. Black Destiny and the End of the Nineteenth Century

"Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hands" : Black Destiny in Nineteenth-Century America / Albert J. Raboteau

The Making of a Church with the Soul of a Nation, 1880-1889 / James Melvin Washington

Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere : African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom / Elsa Barkley Brown

Part 5. The Interwar Period : Migration, Urbanization, and Black Religious Diversity

Racial Christianity / S.P Fullinwider

Religious Diversification during the Era of Advanced Industrial Capitalism / Hans A. Baer and Merrill Singer

Chosen Peoples of the Metropolis : Black Muslims, Black Jews, and Others / Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Religious Ethos of the UNIA / Randall K Burkett

Marcus Garvey, Father Divine, and the Gender Politics of Race Difference and Race Neutrality / Beryl Satter

Charles Manuel "Sweet Daddy" Grace / John O. Hodges

The Black Roots of Pentecostalism / lain MacRobert

"Together and in Harness" : Women's Traditions in the Sanctified Church / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

Reverend George Washington Woodbey : Early Twentieth-Century California Black Socialist / Philip S. Foner

Part 6. Black Religion and the 1960s

From The Luminous Darkness / Howard Thurman

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the African-American Social Gospel / Clayborne Carson

The Religion of Black Power / Vincent Harding

Integrationism and Nationalism in African-American Intellectual History / James H. Cone

Part 7. Black Theology and Its Critics

A Sense of Urgency / Albert B. Cleage Jr.

Black Spirituals : A Theological Interpretation / James H. Cone

Slave Theology in the "Invisible Institution" / Dwight N. Hopkins

Black Theology and the Black Woman / Jacquelyn Grant

Divine Racism : The Unacknowledged Threshold Issue for Black Theology ; James Cone : God, Champion of the Oppressed / William R. Jones

Black Theology : A Marxist Thought / Cornel West

Ontological Blackness in Theology / Victor Anderson

Part 8. African American Religion and Cultural Criticism

Jesse Jackson and the Symbolic Politics of Black Christendom / James Melvin Washington

The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited : Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism / Elizabeth McAlister

Rethinking Vernacular Culture : Black Religion and Race Records in the 1920s and 1930s / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Black Church and Community / Kelly Brown Douglas

For Rent, "Cabin in the Sky" : Race, Religion, and Representational Quagmires in American Film / Judith Weisenfeld

The Prophetic Tradition in Afro-America / Cornel West.