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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.

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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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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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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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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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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Renewing Worship, Vol. 2: Principios para la Adoración (Principles of Worship, Spanish Version)

Principios para la Adoración presenta el resultado de la primera fase consultora de Renovando la Adoración. Durante el 2001, más de 100 personas...

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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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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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