The Black Church Studies Reader

The Black Church Studies Reader addresses the depth and breadth of Black theological studies. The volume examines salient themes such as gender, sexuality, race, social class, health care, the environment, and public policy. The focus of the volume while African American attends to broader African continental and Diasporan religious contexts

James Abbington, Emory University, USA Claudette A. Anderson, Emory University, USA Lewis V. Baldwin, Vanderbilt University, USA Teresa Fry Brown, Emory University, USA Juan Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, USA Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, USA Yvette Flunder, Senior Pastor, City of Refuge UCC, USA Robert M. Franklin, Emory University, USA, Forrest E. Harris, Sr., American Baptist College, USA, and Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA Dorinda G. Henry, Seattle University, USA Dwight N. Hopkins, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University Divinity School, USA Emmanuel L. Lartey, Emory University, USA Pamela Lightsey, Boston University, USA Doreen McCalla, writer, UK Ella P. Mitchell, co-founder of the Ecumenical Center for Black Church Studies in Los Angeles, USA Henry H. Mitchell, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, USA Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, USA Aruthur Pressley, Drew University, USA Rodney S. Sadler, Jr., Union Presbyterian Seminary, Charlotte Campus, USA Selina A. Smith, Georgia Regents University Institute of Public and Preventive Health, USA, and Georgia Department of Family Medicine, USA Harold Dean Trulear, Howard University School of Divinity, USA Tamelyn L. Tucker-Worgs, Hood College, USA Nancy Lynne Westfield, Drew Theological School, USA Dennis W. Wiley, Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, Washington, DC, USA Gayraud S. Wilmore, leading scholar of African American religious experience, retired