Eight leading scholars have joined forces to give us the most comprehensive book to date on the history of African-American religion from the slavery period to
Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African Ameri
Urban Apologetics examines the legitimate issues that Black communities have with Western Christianity and shows how the gospel of Jesus Christ—rather than po
Beyond Christianity draws on rich ethnographic work in a Religious Science church in Oakland, California, to illuminate the ways a group of African Americans ha
Paul Harvey illustrates how black Christian traditions provided theological, institutional, and personal strategies for cultural survival during bondage and int