African Americans and the Bible: sacred texts and social textures

Introduction: Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures / Vincent L. Wimbush

Bible and Contemporary African American Culture I: Hermeneutical Forays, Observations, and Impressions / Velma Love

Bible and Contemporary African American Culture II: Report on a Preliminary Ethnographic Project / James M. Shopshire, Ida Rousseau Mukenge and Victoria Erickson / [et al.]

"I Don't Read Such Small Stuff as Letters": Phenomenology of African American Engagement with the Bible / Theophus Smith

Role of the Bible and Other Sacred Texts in African American Denominations and Sects: Historical and Social Scientific Observations / Hans S. Baer

African Americans and American Biblical Hermeneutics / Charles Mabee

African American Social Cultural Formation, the Bible, and Depth Psychology / David Asomaning

Bible as Informant and Reflector in Social-Structural Relationships of African Americans / James M. Shopshire

Beyond the Guild: Liberating Biblical Studies / Barbara A. Holdrege

Sacred Cosmos: As Ethnography of African Indigenous Religious Traditions / Jacob K. Olupona

Afro-Latinos and the Bible: The Formative Years in Mexico, Brazil, and Peru / Colin Palmer

Casting Aside the Ballast of History and Tradition: White Protestants and the Bible in the Antebellum Period / Randall Balmer

Bible and African American Poetry / Keith Gilyard

"Joseph Story" as Slave Narrative: On Genesis and Exodus as Prototypes for Early Black Anglophone Writing / Phillip Richards

Origins of African American Biblical Hermeneutics in Eighteenth-Century Black Opposition to the Slave Trade and Slavery / John Saillant

"My Burden Lightened": Frederick Douglass, the Bible, and Slave Culture / Sterling Stuckey

Christianity as a Theater of Interiority: Emma Dunham Kelley's Fiction of the 1890s / Carla L. Peterson

Biblical Themes in the R. Nathaniel Dett Collection: Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro (1927) / James Abbington

African Muslim Slaves, the Nation of Islam, and the Bible: Identity, Resistance, and Transatlantic Spiritual Struggles / Richard Brent Turner

Meanings of Scripture in Gullah Concepts of Liberation and Group Identity / Margaret Washington

Conjuring Canes and Bible Quilts: Through the Prism of Nineteenth-Century African American Spirituality / Richard J. Powell

Prophesying Daughters: Nineteenth-Century Black Religious Women, the Bible, and Black Literary History / Chanta M. Haywood

Biblical and Historical Imperatives: Toward a History of Ideas about the Political Role of Black Churches / Barbara Dianne Savage

Virtues of Brotherhood and Sisterhood: African American Fraternal Organizations and Their Bibles / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

Bible in the Educational Philosophies of Fanny Jackson Coppin and Nannie Helen Burroughs / Linda M. Perkins and Traki Taylor

"Behold the Dreamer Cometh": Orishatukeh Faduma and Pan-African Biblical Hermeneutics / Moses Moore

Bible and the Aesthetics of Sacred Space in Twentieth-Century African American Experience / Leslie King-Hammond

Re-Readings: The Great Migration and the Bible / Milton Sernett

African American Gospel Music / Horace Clarence Boyer

Fire This Time: Apocalypse and the African American Novel Tradition / Maxine Montgomery

Preacher-Kings: W. E. B. Du Bois Revisited / Michael A. Gomez

My God Is a Time-God: How African American Folk Oratory Speaks (of) Time / Cecile Coquet

Anointed Ones: Hamer, King, and the Bible in the Southern Freedom Movement / Vincent Harding

City Called Freedom: Biblical Metaphor in Spirituals, Gospel Lyrics, and the Civil Rights Movement / Keith D. Miller

Wresting the Message from the Messenger: The Rastafari as a Case Study in the Caribbean Indigenization of the Bible / Nathaniel S. Murrell

Life-Giving Stories: The Bible in a Congregation / N. Lynne Westfield

African Americans, the Bible, and Spiritual Formation / Cheryl J. Sanders

Biblical Inspiration, Cultural Affirmation: The African American Gift of Song / Mellonee Burnim

African American Catholic Community and the Bible / Cyprian Davis

Sacred World and Sacred Text: The Mehu Healing and Retreat Centre in Ghana / Kofi Asare Opoku and Kathleen O'Brien Wicker

"A Way Out of No Way": The Bible and Catholic Evangelization among African Americans in the United States / V. P. Franklin

When Mighty Waters Rise: African American Folk Healing and the Bible / Fayth M. Parks

Bible and African American Folklore / Yvonne Chireau

Aaron Douglas, the Harlem Renaissance, and Biblical Art: Toward a Radical Politics of Identity / Abraham Smith

Academic Biblical Interpretation among African Americans in the United States / Randall C. Bailey

Construction of a Black Fundamentalist Worldview: The Role of Bible Schools / Albert G. Miller

"For the Cause of Mankind": The Bible, Racial Uplift, and Early Race Movies / Judith Weisenfeld

Dry Bones: Spiritual Apprehension in August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone / Sandra L. Richards

Bible as and at a Threshold: Reading, Performance, and Blessed Space / Grey Gundaker

Adventures of a Black Child in Search of Her God: The Bible in the Works of Me'Shell N'Degeocello / Farah J. Griffin

Hot Buttered Soulful Tunes and Cold Icy Passionate Truths: The Hermeneutics of Biblical Interpolation in R & B (Rhythm & Blues) / Cheryl Kirk-Duggan

Representin' God: Masculinity and the Use of the Bible in Rap Music / Charise Cheney

It Should Be a Black and a Church Thing / Lenton Gunn, Jr.

It's Not Just a Black Thing / Marie Case, Efrain Agosto and Hal Taussig

It's Not Just a Christian Thing / Alfred Muhammed

It's Not Just an American Thing / Gosnell Yorke

It's an Orientation and a Political Thing / R. Drew Smith

Some Things about It Are Disturbing / Leonard Harris and Roderick Belin

It's How Women 'Read' Their 'Titles Clear' / James Ella James and Barbara Austin-Lucas

Ultimately, It's Not a Change of Color, but a Whole Change-of-Subject-Kind-of-Thing / Elisabeth A. Castelli.