The Black Church Studies Reader

Foreword; Forrest E. Harris, Sr.
Prologue; Alton B. Pollard, III
Introduction: 'The Black Church Studies Reader'; Alton B. Pollard, III and Carol B. Duncan
PART I: ORIGINS
1. Black Church Studies: Some of the Roots; Henry H. Mitchell
2. Black Church Studies as Advocate and Critic; Gayraud S. Wilmore
3. Black Church Studies as an Academic Interest and Initiative: A Historical Perspective; Lewis V. Baldwin
PART II: PROGRAM INITIATIVES
4. A Field of Study as a Field of Dreams: Contours of Black Church Studies; Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
5. God Talk with Black Thinkers: An Innovative Model for Black Church Studies; Arthur Pressley and Nancy Lynne Westfield
6. The Public Vocation of Religious Leaders and the Mission of Black Church Studies; Robert M. Franklin
PART III: PURPOSE AND POWER
7. Reestablishing the Purpose and Power of the Preached Word through Black
Church Studies; Teresa Fry Brown
8. Music and Worship in Black Church Studies Curricula; James Abbington
9. Black Church Studies and Scripture; Rodney S. Sadler, Jr.
PART IV: PREACHING AND POETICS
10. All Flesh is Eligible!; Ella P. Mitchell
11. Good Food; Yvette Flunder
12. That was Then, This is Now; Otis Moss, III
13. for women of color scholars who have considered giving up/when the church was
not enuf; Pamela R. Lightsey
14. Noble Nubian Priestess, Sister Friends and Church Mothers, Preachers and Teachers in the House; Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
PART V: PRACTICES AND POLICY
15. Black Church Studies as Practical Theology; Dennis W. Wiley
16. The Black Church and Public Policy: Retrospect and Prospect; Harold Dean Trulear
17. Black Megachurches and the Paradox of Black Progress; Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs
PART VI: TRANSATLANTIC CROSSINGS
18. Black Church Studies in the African Context; Emmanuel Y. Lartey
19. Freedom to 'Catch the Spirit:' Conceptualizing Black Church Studies in a Caribbean Context; Claudette Anderson
20. Out of the Bitter Sea': The Black Church and Migration in North America; Carol B. Duncan
21. Towards Greater Involvement of the British Black Church in the Secular Education of Black Youth: School Exclusion and British Black Males; Doreen McCalla
PART VII: COMING FULL CIRCLE
22. The Black Church and the Mission for the 21st Century; Dwight N. Hopkins
23. 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; Dorinda G. Henry
24. Black Environmental Liberation Theology: The Theological and Historical Roots of Environmental Justice Activism by the African American Church; Dianne D. Glave
25. Closing the Gap between the Academy and the Church: Black Church Studies' Role in Eliminating Health Disparities; Selina A. Smith
26. Economic Justice, and Globalization in Black Church Studies: Confronting the 'Malignant Kinship' in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Juan Floyd-Thomas
Epilogue: 'The Endarkenment': A Parable; Alton B. Pollard, III