African American Religious Studies

by Wilmore, Gayraud

• ISBN13: 9780822309048
• ISBN10: 0822309041
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-07-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

General Introduction

Origins, Context, and Conceptualization

Introduction

The Development of Black Religion in America

Black Church Studies and the Theological Curriculum

Assessment and New Departures for a Study of Black Religion in the United States of America

Folk Religion and Negro Congregations: The Fifth Religion

The Religious Ethos of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Black Spiritual Churches: Thaumaturgical Responses to Rascism and Social Stratification

Biblical Studies

Introduction

Three Thousand Years of Biblical Interpretation with Reference to Black Peoples

Black experience and the Bible

Biblical Historical Study as Liberation: Toward an Afro-Christian Hermeneutic

The Bible, Re-Contextualization and the Black Religious Experience

Theological and Ethical Studies

Introduction

Black Theology as Liberation Theology

Womanist Theology: Black Women's Experience as a Source for Doing Theology, with Special Reference to Christology

African American Catholics and Black Theology: An Interpretation

Religio-Ethical Reflections Upon the Experiential Components of a Philosophy of Black Liberation

Historical Studies

Introduction

Black Religion

The Rise of African Churches in America (1786-1822): Reexamining the Contexts

Religion and Black Protest Thought in African American History

The Muslim Mission in the Context of American Social History

Mission and Ministry Studies

Introduction

Toward a Theology of Black Preaching

The Woman as Preacher

Singing Praise to God in African American Worship Contexts

The New Shiloh Saturday Church School

Pastoral Counseling and the Black Perspective

Confronting the System

Index

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