Monica A. Coleman, Ph.D. #BlackChurchSyllabus

Black Messiah by Albert Cleage A Black Theology of Liberation by James Cone Sisters in the Wilderness by Delores S. Williams Can I Get a Witness? By Marcia Riggs Righteous Discontent by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Walkin the Talk by Julia Speller Beyond Christianity by Darnise S. Martin Their Own Received them Not by Horace Griffin […]

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 James Cone, God of the Oppressed Kelly Brown Douglas, The Black Christ Kelly Brown Douglas, The Black Church and Sexuality: A Womanist Perspective Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, If It Wasn’t for the Women… James Hood, Must God Remain Greek?:Afro Cultures and God Talk Will Coleman, Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and African/American Ways of “Telling the […]

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness  By Michelle Alexander Black Theology & Black Power by James H. Cone Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches by Horace L. Griffin Black Prophetic Fire by Cornel West and Christa Bushendorf Narrative of the Life of Frederick […]

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 Hopkins, Dwight N. Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me Mitchell, Henry H. Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years Floyd-Thomas, Stacey, Juan Floyd-Thomas, Carol B. Duncan, Stephen G. Jr Ray, and Nancy Lynne Westfield. Black Church Studies: An Introduction “Blackening Theology: Critical Race Theory & […]

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 A Black Theology of Liberation – James H Cone White Women’s Christ and Black Women’s Jesus – Jacquelyn Grant Sisters in the Wilderness – Delores Williams Katie’s Cannon – Katie Cannon God of the Oppressed – James H. Cone Working Against The Grain – Anthony G. Reddie SCM Core text: Black Theology – Anthony G. […]

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African American Music: An Introduction Volumes 1-2 edited by Mellonee Burnim and Portia Maultsby In Spirit and In Truth by Melva Costen Marguerite Simon Guillory, and Hugh R. Page, Jr.Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There Is a Mystery.” edited by Stephen Finley, Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil by Emilie Townes When […]

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Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel by Wilda C. Gafney I Found God In Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics by Mitzi J. Smith Katie’s Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community by Katie Cannon Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America by Keri Day […]

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W.E.B. DuBois, The Negro Church Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Desmond Tutu, God Is Not a Christian Carol Anderson, Ancient Laws & Contemporary Controversies James Forbes, Whose Gospel? Anthony Pinn and Dwight Hopkins, eds, Loving the Body Toni Morrison, Beloved Alice Walker, The Color Purple Derrick […]

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James Cone, God of the Oppressed Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent William Andrews, Sisters of the Spirit Albert J. Raboteau, Slave Religion Anthea Butler, Women in the Church of God in Christ W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk Monica Coleman, Making a Way Out of No Way Samuel D. Proctor, Gardner C. Taylor, The […]

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Jarena Lee: Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee Maria Stewart: Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave David Walker: An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World James Weldon Johnson, God’s Trombones Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah’s Gourd Vine Howard Thurman, […]

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