Teaching African American Religions

by Jones, Carolyn M.; Trost, Theodore Louis

• ISBN13: 9780195167979
• ISBN10: 019516797X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The variety and complexity of its traditions make African American religion one of the most difficult topics in religious studies to teach undergraduates. Teaching African American Religions supplies functional and innovative ways to teach African American religious traditions in a range of settings. Addressing both content and method, the authors suggest that, to engage students effectively, instructors must transgress accepted boundaries within the study of religion and challenge conventional teaching practices.

Table of Contents

Contributors,	ix
Introduction: Mining the Motherlode of African American Religious Experience,	3	(10)
Carolyn M. Jones and Theodore Louis Trost
PART I The Classroom as Contact Zone
1. Teaching in the Contact Zone: The African American Religions Course in the Large Public University,	13	(18)
Carolyn M. Jones
2. On the Plantation,	31	(12)
Nancy A. Hardesty
3. Border Disputes: Honoring Our Ancestors, Honoring Ourselves,	43	(14)
Stephanie Y. Mitchem
4. Incorporating the African American Religious Experience into the Community College Curriculum and Classroom,	57	(14)
Mary Jane Horton
5. "I Want to Be Ready!": Teaching Christian Education in the African American Experience,	71	(24)
Yolanda Y. Smith
PART II Challenges to the Textual Canon and the Regnant History
6. "Testifying" and "Testimony": Autobiographical Narratives and African American Religions,	95	(14)
Moses N. Moore, Jr.
7. Rethinking the Core: African and African American Religious Perspectives in the Seminary Curriculum,	109	(18)
Edwin David Aponte
8. Acknowledging Diversity in the American Catholic Experience,	127	(12)
Bernadette McNary-Zak
9. "Making a Way Out of No Way": Interpreting the Praxis of the Black Church for Theological Education,	139	(16)
Daphne C. Wiggins
10. Tribal Talk: African Ancestral Spirituality as a Resource for Wholeness,	155	(20)
Will "Esuyemi" Coleman
Transcribed by Elizabeth Tanner
PART III Decoding and other Modes of Analysis
11. Teaching from the Crossroads: On Religious Healing in African Diaspora Contexts in the Americas,	175	(18)
Linda L. Barnes
12. Teaching African American Religions as Learning to Resist Racism,	193	(16)
Peter R. Gathje
13. Teaching African Religions at a Traditionally White Institution in the South,	209	(10)
Ralph C. Watkins
14. Watching for Religion and Race at the Movies,	219	(22)
Theodore Louis Trost
Afterword: Teaching the Religion behind the Veil,	241	(4)
Emilie M. Townes
Index,	245