Demonstrates that the roots of contemporary African American faith lie in the liberating faith of their enslaved ancestors.
Dwight N. Hopkins is Associate Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, University of Chicago.
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
(10)
PART ONE Historical Black Theology: Religious Formation of Race in American Culture
11
(144)
Two Faces of Protestantism and American Culture
13
(38)
Two Arrivals
13
(6)
Slavery in American Culture
19
(7)
Cultural and Religious Justifications
26
(11)
Conclusion
37
(5)
Notes
42
(9)
From Sunup to Sundown---Slavemasters Constitute the African American Self
51
(56)
Black Labor for White Profit
53
(13)
Networks of Discipline, Control, and Reclassification
66
(17)
Architecture of Slavery Churches
83
(10)
Conclusion
93
(2)
Notes
95
(12)
From Sundown to Sunup: The African American Co-Constitutes the Black Self
107
(48)
West African Religions: A Background
109
(7)
Seizing Sacred Domains
116
(12)
A Divine Right to Resist
128
(7)
Creating a Syncretized Religion
135
(10)
Conclusion
145
(2)
Notes
147
(8)
PART TWO Constructive Black Theology: The Spirit of Liberation
155
(124)
God-The Spirit of Total Liberation for Us
157
(36)
The Acts of God-Ethics-What Does God Do?
158
(4)
The Being of God-Ontology-Who Is God?
162
(4)
Knowledge of God-Epistemology-How Does God Reveal?
166
(5)
The Attributes of God
171
(19)
Notes
190
(3)
Jesus-The Spirit of Total Liberation with Us
193
(44)
The Goal of Liberation with Us
194
(6)
The Road to the Goal
200
(15)
Fruit of the Journey
215
(20)
Notes
235
(2)
Human Purpose-The Spirit of Total Liberation in Us
237
(42)
Created to Be Free
239
(12)
Communalism
251
(3)
Micro-Resistance and Self-Creation
254
(8)
Racial Cultural Identity
262
(4)
Language
266
(4)
Spiritual Inspiration
270
(4)
Conclusion
274
(1)
Notes
275
(4)
Bibliography
279
(10)
Index
289
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