Resurrection Song: African-American Spirituality Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	The African Legacy - A Unified Worldview	9
	The Building Blocks of a Unified African Worldview	14
	African Traditional Religion	26
	African Traditional Morals and Values	37
2	The Quest for Identity	43
	African Retentions	44
	The Worldview of the Enslaved Community	68
	The Black Church and the Enslaved	69
	The Values of the Enslaved Community	76
3	The Call to Protest: Spirituality Embodied	83
	Harriet Tubman	84
	William Edmondson	94
	Fannie Lou Hamer	97
	Ruby Bridges	103
4	The Community	107
5	Scaling the Mountain Peaks of Spirituality: Thurman, King, and Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik Shabazz)	121
	Howard Thurman	121
	Martin Luther King, Jr.	130
	Malcolm X	141
6	Black Film as Theology	151
	Evil and Salvation in Contemporary Black Film	153
7	African-American Spirituality - A Definition	165
	African-American Spirituality as Cultural Resilience	165
	The Effects of African-American Spirituality	169
	Notes	173
	Bibliography	183
	Index	191