African American Religious Studies: An Interdisciplinary AnthologyGayraud S. Wilmore is Professor of Church History and Afro-American Religious Studies at The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He has published numerous articles and booksl including Black Witness to the Apostolic Faith, David Shannon, co-ed.; Black and Presbyterian: The Heritage and the Hope; and Last Things First. Professor Wilmore is the recpicient of the Bruce Klunder Award of the Presbyterian Interracial Councils (1969), the Sward of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Harlem (1971), and various honorary degrees. |
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Contents
Part One Origins Context and Conceptualization | 1 |
Black Church Studies and the Theological Curriculum | 22 |
Assessment and New Departures for a Study of Black Religion in | 34 |
The Fifth Religion Joseph | 50 |
The Religious Ethos of the Universal Negro Improvement Association | 60 |
Thaumaturgical Responses to Racism | 82 |
Part Two Biblical Studies | 101 |
Black Experience and the Bible Robert A Bennett | 129 |
ReligioEthical Reflections Upon the Experiential Components of | 249 |
Part Four Historical Studies | 267 |
Reexamining | 301 |
Religion and Black Protest Thought in African American History | 318 |
The Muslim Mission in the Context of American Social History | 340 |
Part Five Mission and Ministry Studies | 357 |
The Woman as Preacher Cheryl J Sanders | 372 |
Singing Praise to God in African American Worship Contexts | 392 |
Toward an AfroChristian | 140 |
The Bible ReContextualization and the Black Religious Experience | 155 |
Introduction | 173 |
Black Womens Experience as a Source for Doing | 208 |
An Interpretation | 228 |
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Page 428 - Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Bibliographic information
| Title | African American Religious Studies: An Interdisciplinary Anthology |
| Editor | Gayraud S. Wilmore |
| Publisher | Duke University Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0822309262, 9780822309260 |
| Length | 468 pages |
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