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True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary

This pioneering commentary sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. Cutting-edge scholarship that is in...

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The Africana Bible: Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora

A landmark volume, The Africana Bible gathers multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives on every book in the Hebrew Bible. It opens a critical window...

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Strength to Love: Gift Edition

"If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love." So wrote Coretta...

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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.

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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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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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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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Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith

Bipolar Faith is both spiritual autobiography and a memoir of mental illness. In this powerful book, Monica A. Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death. Coleman offers a rare account of how the modulated highs of bipolar II can lead to professional success, while hiding a depression that even her doctors rarely believed. Only as she was able to face her illness was she able to live faithfully with bipolar. And in the process, she discovered a new and liberating vision of God.

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Down in the Valley: An Introduction to African American Religious History

This book provides a comprehensive overview of African American religious history from the African Traditional Religions, slavery, the development of black churches, the rise of black new religious movements, and the Civil Rights movement to the emergence of black megachurches, and examines contemporary issues and challenges facing the study of African American religion today.

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Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr.

What was Martin Luther King Jr. really like? In this groundbreaking volume, Lewis V. Baldwin answers this question by focusing on the man himself. Drawing on the testimonies of friends, family, and closest associates, this volume adds much-needed biographical background to the discussion, as Baldwin looks beyond all of the mythic, messianic, and iconic images to treat King in terms of his fundamental and vivid humanness.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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