African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness by
This collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today.
Black Church Studies: An Introduction by
Introduces all of the core theological disciplines from an African American standpoint, from African American biblical interpretation to womanist theology and and ethics to sociological understandings of the life of African American churches
Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans by
Provides panoramic coverage of the black religious and social experience in America.
Down in the Valley: An Introduction to African American Religious History (Online) by
Provides an overview of the central people, issues, and events in an account that considers Protestant denominations, Catholicism, Islam, Pentecostal churches, Voodoo, Conjure, Rastafarianism, and new religious movements such as Black Judaism, the Nation of Islam, and the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors.
A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History by
The story of the ways in which black folk have turned to Christianity to describe their history and plight in America and to project their vision of redemption to the greater nation.
Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion by
Searches out the basic structure of black religion, tracing the black religious spirit in its many historical manifestations.
African-American Christianity: Essays in History by
Beginning with Albert Raboteau's essay on the importance of the story of Exodus among African-American Christians and concluding with Clayborne Carson's work on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s religious development, this volume illuminates the fusion of African and Christian traditions that has so uniquely contributed to American religious development.
African-American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture by
African American Religion brings together in one forum the most important essays on the development of these traditions to provide an overview of the field.
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song by
A companion book to the PBS series.
Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years by
Traces the growth of the black church from its start in the mid-1700s to the end of the nineteenth century.
The Black Church in the African American Experience (Online) by
Based on a ten-year study, this book was at the time the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study on the subject since the 1930s.
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