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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 | |