Foreword; Forrest E. Harris, Sr.<BR>Prologue; Alton B. Pollard, III<BR>Introduction: 'The Black Church Studies Reader'; Alton B. Pollard, III and Carol B. Duncan<BR>PART I: ORIGINS<BR>1. Black Church Studies: Some of the Roots; Henry H. Mitchell<BR>2. Black Church Studies as Advocate and Critic; Gayraud S. Wilmore<BR>3. Black Church Studies as an Academic Interest and Initiative: A Historical Perspective; Lewis V. Baldwin<BR>PART II: PROGRAM INITIATIVES<BR>4. A Field of Study as a Field of Dreams: Contours of Black Church Studies; Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas<BR>5. God Talk with Black Thinkers: An Innovative Model for Black Church Studies; Arthur Pressley and Nancy Lynne Westfield<BR>6. The Public Vocation of Religious Leaders and the Mission of Black Church Studies; Robert M. Franklin<BR>PART III: PURPOSE AND POWER<BR>7. Reestablishing the Purpose and Power of the Preached Word through Black<BR>Church Studies; Teresa Fry Brown<BR>8. Music and Worship in Black Church Studies Curricula; James Abbington<BR>9. Black Church Studies and Scripture; Rodney S. Sadler, Jr.<BR>PART IV: PREACHING AND POETICS<BR>10. All Flesh is Eligible!; Ella P. Mitchell<BR>11. Good Food; Yvette Flunder<BR>12. That was Then, This is Now; Otis Moss, III<BR>13. for women of color scholars who have considered giving up/when the church was<BR>not enuf; Pamela R. Lightsey<BR>14. Noble Nubian Priestess, Sister Friends and Church Mothers, Preachers and Teachers in the House; Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan<BR>PART V: PRACTICES AND POLICY<BR>15. Black Church Studies as Practical Theology; Dennis W. Wiley<BR>16. The Black Church and Public Policy: Retrospect and Prospect; Harold Dean Trulear<BR>17. Black Megachurches and the Paradox of Black Progress; Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs<BR>PART VI: TRANSATLANTIC CROSSINGS<BR>18. Black Church Studies in the African Context; Emmanuel Y. Lartey<BR>19. Freedom to 'Catch the Spirit:' Conceptualizing Black Church Studies in a Caribbean Context; Claudette Anderson<BR>20. Out of the Bitter Sea': The Black Church and Migration in North America; Carol B. Duncan<BR>21. Towards Greater Involvement of the British Black Church in the Secular Education of Black Youth: School Exclusion and British Black Males; Doreen McCalla<BR>PART VII: COMING FULL CIRCLE<BR>22. The Black Church and the Mission for the 21st Century; Dwight N. Hopkins<BR>23. I, Too, Sing Songs of Freedom: A Theo-Sociological Praxis Toward an Emancipatory Ethic for the Black Church and its Trans-Same-and-both-Gender-Loving Members; Dorinda G. Henry<BR>24. Black Environmental Liberation Theology: The Theological and Historical Roots of Environmental Justice Activism by the African American Church; Dianne D. Glave<BR>25. Closing the Gap between the Academy and the Church: Black Church Studies' Role in Eliminating Health Disparities; Selina A. Smith<BR>26. Economic Justice, and Globalization in Black Church Studies: Confronting the 'Malignant Kinship' in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Juan Floyd-Thomas<BR>Epilogue: 'The Endarkenment': A Parable; Alton B. Pollard, III<BR>
