The Black Church Studies Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
The Black Church Studies Reader: An Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Black Church Studies: Some of the Roots....Pages 15-21
Black Church Studies as Advocate and Critic of Black Christian Ecclesial Communities....Pages 23-30
Black Church Studies as an Academic Interest and Initiative: A Historical Perspective....Pages 31-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
A Field of Study as a Field of Dreams: The Contours of Black Church Studies....Pages 59-67
God-Talk with Black Thinkers: An Innovative Model for Black Church Studies or James Who?....Pages 69-79
The Public Vocation of Religious Leaders and the Mission of Black Church Studies....Pages 81-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Reestablishing the Purpose and Power of the Preached Word through Black Church Studies....Pages 91-99
Music and Worship in Black Church Studies Curricula....Pages 101-115
Black Church Studies and Scripture....Pages 117-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
All Flesh Is Eligible: A Sermon....Pages 129-131
Good Food....Pages 133-135
That Was Then, This is Now....Pages 137-143
For Women of Color Scholars Who Have Considered Giving up/When the Church was Not Enuf....Pages 145-152
Noble Nubian Priestess, Sister Friends and Church Mothers, Preachers and Teachers in the House....Pages 153-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Black Church Studies as Practical Theology....Pages 163-175
The Black Church and Public Policy: Retrospect and Prospect....Pages 177-188
Black Megachurches and the Paradox of Black Progress....Pages 189-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
The Ancestors are Everywhere: Black Church Studies and the African Context....Pages 207-215
Freedom to “Catch the Spirit”: Conceptualizing Black Church Studies in a Caribbean Context....Pages 217-235
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
“Out of the Bitter Sea”: The Black Church and Migration in North America....Pages 237-244
Towards Greater Involvement of the British Black Church in the Secular Education of Black Youth: School Exclusion and British Black Males....Pages 245-261
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
The Black Church and Its Mission for the Twenty-First Century....Pages 265-278
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....Pages 279-290
Closing the Academic-Ecclesiastical Gap: Black Church Studies’ Role in Eliminating Health Disparities....Pages 291-302
Economic Justice and Globalization in Black Church Studies: Confronting the “Malignant Kingship” in the Post-Civil Rights Era....Pages 303-318
Epilogue: The Endarkenment: A Parable....Pages 319-324
Back Matter....Pages 325-335