Bibliography of Black theology

This is a bibliography of works on Black theology.

Music Cone, James H. The Spirituals and the Blues, Mary Knoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1991. Mapson, J. Wendell, Jr., The Ministry of Music in the Black Church, Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1984 Walker, Wyatt Tee. Somebody's Calling My Name: Black Sacred Music and Social Change, Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1979.

Practical ministry Aldred, Joe. Praying with Power, London: Continuum, 2000 Aldred, Joe. Preaching With Power, London: Cassells, 1998 Andersson, Efraim Churches at the Grassroots London: Lutterworth Press, 1968 Andrews, Dale P. Practical Theology for Black Churches, Louisville: John Knox Press, 2002 Cosby, Kevin W. Get Off Your But! Messages Musings and Ministries to Empower the African American Church, Lithonia, Georgia: Orman Press, 2000. Crawford, Evans E. The Hum: Call and Response in African American Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995. Felder, Cain Hope. The African Heritage Study Bible, Nashville, Tenn. The James C. Winston Publishing Company, 1993 Kellar, Marcel. Timothy, Stir Up Your Gift!, Nashville: MEGA Corporation, 2000. Mitchell, Henry H. and Thomas, Emil M. Preaching for Black Self-Esteem, Nashville: Abingdon, 1994. Ratliffe, Joe S. & Michael J. Cox, Church Planting in the African American Community, Valley Forge: Judson Press, 2002. 111 pages. Reddie, Anthony. Acting in Solidarity Peterborough: DLT, 2005 Reddie, Anthony. Nobodies to Somebodies: Practical Theology for Education and Liberation, Peterborough: Epworth Press, 2003 Stewart III, Carlyle Fielding African American Church Growth Twelve Principles for Prophetic Ministry, Nashville, Abingdon Press, 1994 Stewart III, Carlyle Fielding, ed. Growing the African American Church, Nashville, Abingdon Press, 2006 Stewart III, Carlyle Fielding. "Joy Songs, Trumpet Blasts...Sermons in the African American Preaching Tradition, Lima Ohio, CSS Publishing, 1997 Dudley, Granae D. and Stewart III, Carlyle Fielding. "Sankofa Celebrations for the African American Church, Cleveland, Ohio, United Church Press,1997 Taylor, Edward L. comp. The Words of Gardner Taylor, Volume 1: NBC Radio Sermons (1959–1970). Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1999. Thomas, Walter S., Spiritual Navigation for the 21st Century: Sermons from Walter Thomas. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 2000. Trimiew, Darryl M., Editor. Out of Mighty Waters: Sermons by African American Disciples, St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1994. Waters, Kenneth L. Afrocentric Sermons: The Beauty of Blackness in the Bible, Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1993. Wimberly, Edward P. Moving From Shame to Self-Worth: Preaching and Pastoral Care, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999. Wright, Jeremiah A. Africans Who Shaped Our Faith: A Study of Ten Biblical Personalities, Chicago: Urban Ministries, 1995 Wright, Jr., Jeremiah A. Good News: Sermons of Hope for Today's Families, Valley Forge: Judson, 1995. Wright, Jr., Jeremiah A. What Makes You So Strong?: Sermons of Joy and Strength from Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1993.

Sexuality Douglas, Kelly Brown. Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective, Mary Knoll, NY: Orbis Books. Kornegay, Jr., EL. Queering Black Homophobia: Black Theology as a Sexual Discourse of Transformation, London: Continuum. Kornegay, Jr., EL. A Queering of Black Theology: James Baldwin's Blues Project and Gospel Prose, New York: Palgrave Press, 2013.

Social issues Billingsley, Andrew. Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Fluker, Walter Earl, The Stones that the Builders Rejected: The Development of Ethical Leadership from the Black Church Tradition, Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1998. Franklin, Robert M. Another Day's Journey: Black Churches Confronting the American Crisis, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997. Grant, Paul and Patel, Raj (Eds.) A Time to Speak. Birmingham: A joint publication of 'Racial Justice' and the 'Black Theology Working Group''' 1990 Grant, Paul and Patel, Raj (Eds.) A Time To Act: Kairos 1992 Birmingham: A joint publication of 'Racial Justice' and the 'Black Theology Working Group' 1992 Harris, Forrest E. Ministry for Social Crisis: Theology and Praxis in the Black Church Tradition, Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1993 January, Jerald. A Second Time: Examining the Sin of Racial Division that Remain in the Church Today, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996. Kirylo, James D. Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife. New York: Peter Lang, 2011. Malone, Walter, Jr. An Operative Faith for Oppressed People, Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1988. Sawyer, Mary R. Black Ecumenism: Implementing the Demands of Justice, Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1998.

Sociological and historical studies Andersson, Efraim. Churches at the Grassroots, London: Lutterworth Press, 1968 Arnold, Bruce Makoto. "Shepherding a Flock of a Different Fleece: A Historical and Social Analysis of the Unique Attributes of the African American Pastoral Caregiver." The Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling 66, no. 2 (June 2012). Cone, James H. and Wilmore, Gayraud S. Black Theology A Documentary History: Vol 1. 1966-1979, New York: Orbis Books, 1992 Cone, James H. and Wilmore, Gayraud S. Black Theology A Documentary History: Vol 2. 1980- 1992, New York: Orbis Books, 1993 Ela, Jean-Marc. African Cry, Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1986 Frazier, E. Franklin. The Black Church in America, New York: Shocken Books, 1964 Jagessar, Michael N. and Anthony G. Reddie (eds.) Postcolonial Black British Theology, Peterborough, Epworth: 2007 Jagessar, Michael N. and Anthony G. Reddie (eds.) Black Theology in Britain: A Reader, London, Equinox: 2007 Lincoln, C. Eric, The Black Church in the African American Experience, Durham, N.Y.: Duke University Press, 1990 Paris, Peter J. The Social Teaching of the Black Churches, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985. Paris, Peter J. The Spirituality of African Peoples, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995 Pinn, Anne and Anthony B. Black Church History, Fortress Press, 2002 Rabateau, Albert. Slave Religion, Oxford University Press, 1978 Reddie, Richard S., Abolition! The Struggle to Abolish Slavery in the British Colonies, Lion Hudson PLC: Oxford, 2007. Reddie, Anthony. Faith, Stories and the Experience of Black Elders, London: Jessica Kingsley, 2001 Sernett, Milton C. African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, Duke University Press (2nd ed), 1999, Stewart III, Carlyle Fielding. Soul Survivors An African American Spirituality, Louisville, Ky, Westminster John Knox Press, 1997 Stewart III, Carlyle Fielding. Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness, Trenton, New Jersey, Africa World Press, 1999 Terrell, JoAnne Marie. Power in the Blood: The Cross in the African American Experience, New York: Orbis books, 1998 Wilkinson, John. Church in Black and White, St. Andrews Press, 1994 Williams, Ethel L. and Clifton F. Brown, Howard University Bibliography of African and Afro American Religious Studies: With Locations in American Libraries, SR Books, 1977, Wilmore, Gayraud. Black Religion and Black Radicalism, New York: Orbis Books, 1973. Wilmore, Gayraud and Cone, James H. (Eds.) "Black Theology: A Documentary History, 1966-1979", Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1979. pp. 350–359

Theology and philosophy Anyabwile, Thabiti M. and Mark A. Noll. The Decline of African American Theology: From Biblical Faith to Cultural Captivity, Inter-Varsity Press, 2007. Bailey, Randall C. and Jacquelyn Grant, editors. The Recovery of Black Presence: An Interdisciplinary Exploration, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995. Bond, Gilbert I. Community, Communitas, and Cosmos: Toward a Phenomenological Interpretation and Theology of Traditional Afro-Christian Worship, New York: University Press of America, 2002 Bond, Gilbert I., A Phenomenology of Reconciliation: Diasporic Community, Cerole Consciousness, and the Religious Life of Paul, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000. Bridges, Flora Wilson. Resurrection Song: African-American Spirituality (The Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion, Mary Knoll: Orbis Books, 2000. Cone, James H. God of the Oppressed, New York: Seabury Press, 1975 Cone, James H. For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church, New York: Orbis Books, 1984 Cone, James H. My Soul Looks Back, New York: Orbis Books, 1986 Cone, James H. Black Theology and Black Power (20th Anniversary Edition), New York: Harper San Francisco, 1989 Cooper-Lewter, Nicholas. Soul Theology: The Heart of American Black Culture, Nashville: Abingdon. Douglas, Kelly Brown. The Black Christ (Bishop Henry McNeal Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion), New York: Orbis Books, 1994 Dube, Musa W. And Staley, Jeffrey L. John and Postcolonialism London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002 DuBois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk New York: Dover Publications 1994 Duffield, Ian K. (ed) Urban Christ: Responses to John Vincent, Sheffield: UTU, 1997 Evans, Jr., James H. We Have Been Believers: An African American Systematic Theology, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992 Felder, Cain Hope Stony. The Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991 Gerloff, Roswith I. H. A Plea for British Black Theologies, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1992 Hood, Robert E. Must God Remain Greek?: Afro-Cultures and God-Talk, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990 Hood, Robert E. Begrimmed and Black: Christian Traditions on Blacks and Blackness, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994 Hope, Marjorie and Young, James. The South African Churches in a Revolutionary Situation, Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1979 Hopkins, Dwight N. (Ed.) Black Faith and Public Talk: Critical Essays on James H. Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power, New York: Orbis Books, 1999 Hopkins, Dwight N. Introducing Black Theology of Liberation, New York: Orbis book, 1999 Hopkins, Dwight N. Down, Up and Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2000 Hopkins, Dwight N. and Cummings, George. Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue: Black Theology and the Slave Narratives, New York: Orbis Books, 1991 Jennings, Theodore W. Good News to the Poor, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990 Jones, William R. Is God a White Racist? Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. Kalilombe, Patrick A. Doing Theology at the Grassroots, Gweru, Zimbabwe: Mambo Press, 1999. Okholm, Dennis L. The Gospel in Black & White: Theological Resources for Racial Reconciliation, InterVarsity Press, 1997. Pinn, Anthony B. Why Lord?: Suffering and Evil in Black Theology, New York: Continuum, 1995 Pinn, Anthony B. Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003 Reddie, Anthony. Black Theology in Transatlantic Dialogue, Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Reddie, Anthony. Dramatizing Theologies, London: Equinox, 2006. Reddie, Anthony. Working Against The Grain: Re-imaging Black Theology in the 21st Century, London: Equinox, 2008. Reddie, Anthony. Is God Colour Blind?: Insights from Black Theology for Christian Ministry, London: SPCK, 2009 Reddie, Anthony. Black Theology, Slavery and Contemporary Christianity, Basingstoke: Ashgate, 2010 Reddie, Anthony. SCM Core Text: Black Theology, London: SCM press, 2012 Roberts, J. Deotis. Africentric Christianity: A Theological Appraisal for Ministry, Judson Press, 2000. Roberts, J. Deotis. Black Religion, Black Theology, Continuum International, 2003. Roberts, J. Deotis. Black Theology in Dialogue, Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1987. Roberts, J. Deotis. Liberation and Reconciliation: A Black Theology (Second Edition), Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005. Roberts, J. Deotis. The Prophethood of Black Believers: An African-American Political Theology for Ministry, Westminster, John Knox, 1994.