Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion Book

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Thematic, Contextual Prisms for Understanding African American Religion
1	Perspectives for a Study of African American Religion	9
2	African Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel	20
3	What Is African American Christianity?	26
4	The Religious Dimension: "The Black Sacred Cosmos"	32
Pt. II	From the Motherland to Another Land: The Emergence of African American Religion in the Antebellum United States
5	Black Religion: The African Model	41
6	"The Rule of Gospel Order": Religious Life in the Slave Community	49
7	Sources of Black Denominationalism	59
8	Pre-Twentieth Century Islam	69
9	Memoir of Abraham	81
10	The Idea of Missions	85
11	Black Women in Religious Institutions: A Historical Summary from Slavery to the 1960s	97
Pt. III	"Slavery's Chains Done Broke At Las'": African American Religion in the Aftermath of Slavery
12	The Gospel and the Primer	109
13	The Black Faith of W. E. B. Du Bois: Sociocultural and Political Dimensions of Black Religion	122
14	"All Things to All People": The Functions of the Black Church in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century	133
15	The Redemption of Africa and Black Religion	141
Pt. IV	A Shift of Locus and Focus: African American Religion and the Transition into the Twentieth Century
16	"Everyone Is Welcome": North the the Promised Land	155
17	The Grip of the Negro Church	160
18	The Development of Gospel Song	175
19	The Black Roots of Pentecostalism	189
Pt. V	Expanding the Options: Diversification in African American Religious Expression
20	The Second Emergence of Islam	203
21	The Voodoo Cult among Negro Migrants in Detroit	208
22	Father Major Jealous Divine	221
23	Black Judaism in the United States	225
24	The Historical Development of Black Spiritual Churches	232
25	Orisha Worship in the United States	243
26	African American Yorubas in Harlem and the Transition to Oyotunji Village	256
27	The Other Kind of Doctor: Conjure and Magic in Black American Folk Medicine	260
28	African Americans and Humanism	273
Pt. VI	"Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?": African American Religion and Social Advocacy
29	In Search of the Promised Land	289
30	The Black Church and Black Politics: Models of Ministerial Activism	293
31	Black Religion and Social Change: Women in Leadership Roles	303
32	Black Religious Nationalism and the Politics of Transcendence	317
33	The Dialectical Model of the Black Church	329
Pt. VII	Profiles of the Contemporary African American Church
34	Rural, Urban Clergy and Churches	339
35	The Black Denominations and the Ordination of Women	367
36	The Churches and Broader Developments in Black Religion: Two Congregational Case Studies	381
Pt. VIII	Claiming a Theological Voice: Black and Womanist Theologies in the Twentieth Century
37	Black Theology as Liberation Theology	389
38	Statement by the National Committee of Black Churchmen, June 13, 1969	414
39	Statement by the National Committee of Black Churchmen, Third Annual Convocation, November 11-14, 1969	417
40	African American Catholics and Black Theology: An Interpretation	423
41	"Lifting as We Climb": Womanist Theorizing about Religion and the Family	434
Pt. IX	Looking Back to the Future
42	Survival, Elevation, and Liberation in Black Religion	447
43	Fighting for Freedom with Church Fans: To Know What Religion Means	469
App. 1	Timeline of the African American Religious Experience	482
App. 2	Filmography of the African American Religious Experience	488
	Acknowledgements	489
	Index	493
	About the Editor	496