Augsburg Fortress

The Measure of a Man

Why nonviolence matters Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader contains the...

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Presumed Guilty: Why We Shouldn't Ask Muslims to Condemn Terrorism

All of us should condemn terrorism?whether the perpetrators are Muslim extremists, white supremacists, Marxist revolutionaries, or our own government. But it's time for us to...

African Theology on the Way: Current Conversations

In this exciting volume, Diane B. Stinton has assembled the work of nearly twenty prominent African theologians, making their writings accessible to the introductory level student.

Asian Theology on the Way: Christianity, Culture, and Context

In this exciting volume, Peniel Rajkumar has assembled the work of nearly twenty prominent Asian theologians, making their writings accessible to the introductory level student.

The Histories of the Latin American Church: A Brief Introduction

With this brief, engaging, and helpful overview, Joel M. Cruz offers a resource that tells that story of Latin America church history in a new way, enabling students of all kinds to better understand the histories of Latin American Christianity.

Breaking Bread, Breaking Beats: Churches and Hip-Hop - A Basic Guide to Key Issues

In this innovative project, ten individuals write as one voice to illuminate the ways that hip-hop and the Black Church agree, disagree, and inform each other on key topics.

A Child Shall Lead Them: Martin Luther King Jr., Young People, and the Movement

Half a century after some of its most important moments, the assessment of the Civil Rights Era continues. In this exciting volume, Dr. Rufus Burrow turns his attention to a less investigated but critically important byway in this powerful story—the role of children and young people in the Civil Rights Movement.

eBook-By the Rivers of Babylon: Blueprint for a Church in Exile

Robert Hoch reads the larger North American tradition of Christian worship and mission through the prism of visibly marginalized communities.

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Ethics That Matters: African, Caribbean, and African American Sources

In light of globalization, ongoing issues of race, gender, and class, and the rapidly changing roles of institutions, this volume asserts that Christian social...

What Is African American Religion?: Facets series

Is there really a monolithic "black church"? Distilling the arguments of Pinn's important and provocative work in Terror and Triumph, this brief work asks the...

The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching

African American congregations have long been celebrated as a locus for powerful, prophetic preaching, but at its best they have also embraced a strong pastoral...

Women Out of Order: Risking Change and Creating Care in a Multicultural World

While there are many similarities among women's experiences, there are undeniable and important differences as well. Assembling a leading group of theologians,...

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A Loving Home: Spirituality, Sexuality, and Healing Black Life

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Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities

Robert M. Franklin provides first-person advice and insight as he identifies the crises resident within three anchor institutions that have played key roles in...

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Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion

Dwight Hopkins, whose important work in Black Theology has mediated class theological concerns through the prism of African American culture, here offers a...

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Blow the Trumpet in Zion!: Global Vision and Action for the Twenty-First-Century Black Church

This volume's contributors — dynamic and progressive African American church leaders — advocate the prophetic powers of black theology, preaching, and...

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Virtues and Values: The African and African American Experience

This brief volume is excerpted from Peter Paris's popular and influential work The Spirituality of African Peoples on African and African American Spirituality....

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Living Stones in the Household of God: The Legacy and Future of Black Theology

The advent of black theology in the late 1960s brought together a revolution in the nation's race relations with a new theological reckoning and a reassessment...

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Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion

Given the unique history of African Americans and its diverse religious flowering—in Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, Voodoo, and...

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Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights

After a chapter exploring black women's religious context and presenting early examples of this work by women of the ante-bellum and post-Reconstruction eras,...

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