The Black Church Studies Reader

Chapter 1 The Black Church Studies Reader: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Black Church Studies: Some of the Roots

Chapter 3 Black Church Studies as Advocate and Critic of Black Christian Ecclesial Communities

Chapter 4 Black Church Studies as an Academic Interest and Initiative: A Historical Perspective

Chapter 5 A Field of Study as a Field of Dreams: The Contours of Black Church Studies

Chapter 6 God-Talk with Black Thinkers: An Innovative Model for Black Church Studies or James Who?

Chapter 7 The Public Vocation of Religious Leaders and the Mission of Black Church Studies

Chapter 8 Reestablishing the Purpose and Power of the Preached Word through Black Church Studies

Chapter 9 Music and Worship in Black Church Studies Curricula

Chapter 10 Black Church Studies and Scripture

Chapter 11 All Flesh Is Eligible: A Sermon

Chapter 12 Good Food

Chapter 13 That Was Then, This is Now

Chapter 14 For Women of Color Scholars Who Have Considered Giving up/When the Church was Not Enuf

Chapter 15 Noble Nubian Priestess, Sister Friends and Church Mothers, Preachers and Teachers in the House

Chapter 16 Black Church Studies as Practical Theology

Chapter 17 The Black Church and Public Policy: Retrospect and Prospect

Chapter 18 Black Megachurches and the Paradox of Black Progress

Chapter 19 The Ancestors are Everywhere: Black Church Studies and the African Context

Chapter 20 Freedom to “Catch the Spirit”: Conceptualizing Black Church Studies in a Caribbean Context

Chapter 21 “Out of the Bitter Sea”: The Black Church and Migration in North America

Chapter 22 Towards Greater Involvement of the British Black Church in the Secular Education of Black Youth: School Exclusion and British Black Males

Chapter 23 The Black Church and Its Mission for the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 24 I, too, Sing Songs of Freedom: A Theo-Sociological Praxis toward an Emancipatory Ethic for the Black Church and Its Trans-Same-and-Both-Gender-Loving Members

Chapter 25 Closing the Academic-Ecclesiastical Gap: Black Church Studies’ Role in Eliminating Health Disparities

Chapter 26 Economic Justice and Globalization in Black Church Studies: Confronting the “Malignant Kingship” in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Chapter 27 Epilogue: The Endarkenment: A Parable