| Introduction: Towards New Visions and New Approaches in African American Religious Studies | p. xi |
| Prehistory of African American Religious Studies | |
| Of the Faith of the Fathers | p. 3 |
| Origins of the Church | p. 14 |
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| The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death | p. 29 |
| Love | p. 49 |
| The Negro Church and Assimilation | p. 62 |
| Theorizing African American Religion | |
| American Africans in Conflict: Alienation in an Insecure Culture | p. 77 |
| Authority, Alienation, and Social Death | p. 99 |
| The Racial Factor in the Shaping of Religion in America | p. 156 |
| The Black Church: A Gender Perspective | p. 187 |
| The Central Themes of American Religious History: Pluralism, Puritanism, and the Encounter of Black and White | p. 209 |
| Assessment and New Departures for a Study of Black Religion in the United States of America | p. 221 |
| Slavery and a Black Religious Imagination | |
| Death of the Gods | p. 239 |
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| The Christian Tradition | p. 285 |
| Black Conversion and White Sensibility | p. 291 |
| Religious Foundations of the Black Nation | p. 301 |
| Exodus | p. 309 |
| Of the Black Church and the Making of a Black Public | p. 338 |
| "Doers of the Word": Theorizing African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the Antebellum North | p. 366 |
| Black Destiny and the End of the Nineteenth Century | |
| "Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Forth Her Hands": Black Destiny in Nineteenth-Century America | p. 397 |
| The Making of a Church with the Soul of a Nation, 1880-1889 | p. 414 |
| Negotiating and Transforming the Public Sphere: African American Political Life in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom | p. 435 |
| The Interwar Period: Migration, Urbanization, and Black Religious Diversity | |
| Racial Christianity | p. 477 |
| Religious Diversification during the Era of Advanced Industrial Capitalism | p. 495 |
| Chosen Peoples of the Metropolis: Black Muslims, Black Jews, and Others | p. 534 |
| Religious Ethos of the UNIA | p. 550 |
| Marcus Garvey, Father Divine, and the Gender Politics of Race Difference and Race Neutrality | p. 572 |
| Charles Manuel "Sweet Daddy" Grace | p. 605 |
| The Black Roots of Pentecostalism | p. 616 |
| "Together and in Harness": Women's Traditions in the Sanctified Church | p. 629 |
| Reverend George Washington Woodbey: Early Twentieth-Century California Black Socialist | p. 651 |
| Black Religion and the 1960s | |
| From The Luminous Darkness | p. 679 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr., and the African-American Social Gospel | p. 696 |
| The Religion of Black Power | p. 715 |
| Integrationism and Nationalism in African-American Intellectual History | p. 746 |
| Black Theology and Its Critics | |
| A Sense of Urgency | p. 765 |
| Black Spirituals: A Theological Interpretation | p. 775 |
| Slave Theology in the "Invisible Institution" | p. 790 |
| Black Theology and the Black Woman | p. 831 |
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| Divine Racism: The Unacknowledged Threshold Issue for Black Theology | p. 849 |
| James Cone: God, Champion of the Oppressed | p. 854 |
| Black Theology and Marxist Thought | p. 874 |
| Ontological Blackness in Theology | p. 893 |
| African American Religion and Cultural Criticism | |
| Jesse Jackson and the Symbolic Politics of Black Christendom | p. 921 |
| The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism | p. 942 |
| Rethinking Vernacular Culture: Black Religion and Race Records in the 1920s and 1930s | p. 978 |
| Homophobia and Heterosexism in the Black Church and Community | p. 996 |
| For Rent, "Cabin in the Sky": Race, Religion, and Representational Quagmires in American Film | p. 1019 |
| The Prophetic Tradition in Afro-America | p. 1037 |
| Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 1051 |
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