Augsburg Fortress

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.

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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...

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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...

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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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Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience

At least until recently, most African Americans would know what is meant by "the black church" or by "African American religion." But now,...

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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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The Church Enslaved: A Spirituality for Racial Reconciliation

Two of the most vocal activists on racial issues in the church seek nothing less than a conversion of American Christianity. They directly challenge the...

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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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Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation

Writing from a Native American perspective, theologian George Tinker probes American Indian culture, its vast religious and cultural legacy, and its ambiguous...

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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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En la Lucha / In the Struggle: Elaborating a Mujerista Theology, Tenth-Anniversary Edition

Ten years ago En la Lucha offered the first systematic presentation of mujerista theology – the liberating religious reflection of Hispanic women –...

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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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The Bible and African Americans: A Brief History

The unique encounter of African Americans with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and social engagement of a whole continent. Highly respected...

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Camino a Emaús: Compartiendo el ministerio de Jesús

This multi-authored, ecumenical book presents a theology of ministry based on the experience of Hispanic communities in the United States. Composed in...

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Fortress Introduction to Black Church History

A concise and accessible history. A brief history of black Christian churches in the United States has long been needed. Larger sociological and historical...

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Down, Up, and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology

Hopkins contends that the lives of enslaved African Americans were the foundational source of liberating faith and practice for African Americans today....

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