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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Forged in the Fiery Furnace | |
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| What Is Africa to Me? | |
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| African Roots | |
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| African Origins | |
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| African Religious Systems | |
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| African Traditional Religion | |
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| Life in/as Community | |
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| Sin | |
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| African Spirituality | |
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| Creation Stories | |
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| Sacred Ritual | |
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| Human Agencies | |
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| Out from Africa | |
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| Lord, How Come Me Here? | |
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| Building Community | |
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| Unity in Diversity | |
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| Africanisms in the United States | |
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| Roman Catholic Influences | |
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| Protestant Influences | |
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| An Enslaved Understanding of Scripture | |
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| Say Amen, Somebody | |
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| Emergence of African American Spirituality | |
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| Spirit Possession and Being Slain in the Spirit | |
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| The Conversion Experience: Protestant | |
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| The Conversion Experience: | |
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| Roman Catholic | |
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| Slave Resistance | |
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| Slave Narratives | |
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| A Paradoxical Faith | |
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| Yet Do I Marvel | |
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| An Oral Spirituality | |
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| The Sorrow Songs | |
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| The Role of the Spirituals: Compensatory or Revolutionary? | |
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| Social Consciousness | |
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| Rechristianizing Christianity | |
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| Post-Civil War/Post-Reconstruction | |
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| Oh, Freedom! | |
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| The Emergence of the Black Church | |
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| Freedom's Beginning: Slavery's End | |
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| Freedom's Spirit: The Black Church | |
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| Development of Independent Black Churches | |
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| What Is the Black Church? | |
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| Freedom's Betrayal: The Rise of Jim Crow | |
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| The Black Church: Post-Reconstruction | |
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| Freedom Deferred: An Alternate Spirituality | |
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| My Soul Is Rested | |
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| The Struggle for Justice | |
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| "A Change Is Gonna' Come" | |
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| A Movement of the Spirit | |
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| Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Civil Rights | |
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| Black Power and the Nation of Islam | |
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| A Liberating Black Theology | |
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| The Praxis of Black Catholics | |
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| How Far We've Come | |
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| Beautiful Are the Souls of My Black Sisters | |
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| The Spirituality of African American Women | |
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| Daughters of Africa | |
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| Building Community | |
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| African American Women and the Bible | |
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| Womanist Theology and Spirituality | |
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| African American Catholic Women | |
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| Strong Women Keep a'Comin' | |
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| We Who Believe in Freedom | |
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| Spirituality in Action | |
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| Walter Earl Fluker: Spirituality as a Basis for Ethical Leadership | |
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| James H. Evans, Jr.: Spirituality and Social Transformation | |
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| Peter J. Paris: Spirituality of a People | |
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| Carlyle Fielding Stewart III Soul Survivors | |
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| Cornel West: Combative Spirituality | |
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| Gayraud S. Wilmore: Pragmatic Spirituality | |
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| Robert M. Franklin: A Diversity of Traditions | |
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| Bryan N. Massingale: Lamentation and Compassion | |
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| Alternative Spiritualities | |
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| The Faith Journey Continues | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |