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| Introduction | |
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| Thematic, Contextual Prisms for Understanding African American Religion | |
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| Perspectives for a Study of African American Religion | |
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| African Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel | |
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| What Is African American Christianity? | |
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| The Religious Dimension: "The Black Sacred Cosmos" | |
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| From the Motherland to Another Land: The Emergence of African American Religion in the Antebellum United States | |
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| Black Religion: The African Model | |
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| "The Rule of Gospel Order": Religious Life in the Slave Community | |
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| Sources of Black Denominationalism | |
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| Pre-Twentieth Century Islam | |
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| Memoir of Abraham | |
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| The Idea of Missions | |
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| Black Women in Religious Institutions: A Historical Summary from Slavery to the 1960s | |
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| "Slavery's Chains Done Broke At Las'": African American Religion in the Aftermath of Slavery | |
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| The Gospel and the Primer | |
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| The Black Faith of W. E. B. Du Bois: Sociocultural and Political Dimensions of Black Religion | |
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| "All Things to All People": The Functions of the Black Church in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Redemption of Africa and Black Religion | |
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| A Shift of Locus and Focus: African American Religion and the Transition into the Twentieth Century | |
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| "Everyone Is Welcome": North the the Promised Land | |
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| The Grip of the Negro Church | |
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| The Development of Gospel Song | |
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| The Black Roots of Pentecostalism | |
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| Expanding the Options: Diversification in African American Religious Expression | |
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| The Second Emergence of Islam | |
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| The Voodoo Cult among Negro Migrants in Detroit | |
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| Father Major Jealous Divine | |
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| Black Judaism in the United States | |
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| The Historical Development of Black Spiritual Churches | |
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| Orisha Worship in the United States | |
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| African American Yorubas in Harlem and the Transition to Oyotunji Village | |
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| The Other Kind of Doctor: Conjure and Magic in Black American Folk Medicine | |
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| African Americans and Humanism | |
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| "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?": African American Religion and Social Advocacy | |
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| In Search of the Promised Land | |
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| The Black Church and Black Politics: Models of Ministerial Activism | |
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| Black Religion and Social Change: Women in Leadership Roles | |
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| Black Religious Nationalism and the Politics of Transcendence | |
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| The Dialectical Model of the Black Church | |
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| Profiles of the Contemporary African American Church | |
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| Rural, Urban Clergy and Churches | |
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| The Black Denominations and the Ordination of Women | |
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| The Churches and Broader Developments in Black Religion: Two Congregational Case Studies | |
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| Claiming a Theological Voice: Black and Womanist Theologies in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Black Theology as Liberation Theology | |
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| Statement by the National Committee of Black Churchmen, June 13, 1969 | |
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| Statement by the National Committe of Black Churchmen, Third Annual Convocation, November 11-14, 1969 | |
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| African American Catholics and Black Theology: An Interpretation | |
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| "Lifting as We Climb": Womanist Theorizing about Religion and the Family | |
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| Looking Back to the Future | |
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| Survival, Elevation, and Liberation in Black Religion | |
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| Fighting for Freedom with Church Fans: To Know What Religion Means | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Timeline of the African American Religious Experience | |
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| Filmography of the African American Religious Experience | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editor | |