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Black Church Studies An Introduction

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ISBN-10: 0687332656

ISBN-13: 9780687332656

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Carol B. Duncan, Stephen G. Ray, Nancy Lynne Westfield

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Religious Studies Over the last thirty years African American voices and perspectives have become essential to the study of the various theological disciplines. Writing out of their particular position in the North American context, African American thinkers have contributed significantly to biblical studies, theology, church history, ethics, sociology of religion, homiletics, pastoral care, and a number of other fields. Frequently the work of these African American scholars is brought together in the seminary curriculum under the rubric of the black church studies class. Drawing on these several disciplines, the black church studies class seeks to give an account of the broad meaning of…    
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List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 287
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomasis associate professor of ethics and director of black church studies, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University.

Associate Professor in the Field of Black Church Studies, Vanderbilt Divinity School, (office: Div 143)

Carol B. Duncan is Chair of the Department of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Her areas of research interest include Caribbean religion and culture in diasporic and transnational contexts. She has published on the Spiritual Baptists, the Black Church, black women and motherhood, and race, gender, and representation in film. Duncan is a co-author of the textbook Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon Press, 2007). In 2006#

N. Lynne Westfield is Assistant Professor of Religious Education at Drew University Theological School.

Black Church History
Black Biblical Studies
Black Theologies
The Black Church, Culture, and Society
African American Christian Social Ethics
Christian Education in the Black Church Tradition
Black Christian Worship as Nurture
Black Preaching Praxis
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Authors' Biographies
Index