Michael Leo Owens, Ph.D. #BlackChurchSyllabus

David Walker, An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World Eric Lincoln & Lawrence H. Mamiya, The Black Church in the African American Experience Gayraud Wilmore, Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of African Americans Fredrick C. Harris, Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs, The Black […]

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James H. Cone, Black Theology & Black Power James H. Cone, The Cross & the Lynching Tree Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God Marcia Y. Riggs, Plenty Good Room: Women Versus Male Power in the Church Emilie M. Townes, A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil […]

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James Cone, Martin and Malcolm, and America James Cone, God of the Oppressed James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree Katie Cannon, Katie’s Canon Katie Cannon and Anthony Pinn, The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground Dwight Hopkins and Edward […]

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A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination, Emmanuel M. Katongole A Troubling in My Soul, Emilie Townes Crisis in the Village, Robert Franklin If It Wasn’t for the Women, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes God of the Oppressed, James Cone Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander Prophesy Deliverance!, Cornel […]

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Troubling Biblical Waters, Cain Hope Felder Between Sundays, Marla Frederick Where Have All The Prophets Gone, Marvin McMickle God of the Oppressed, James Cone The Cross & The Lynching Tree, James Cone Prophetic Imagination, Walter Brueggemann White Women’s Christ, Black Women’s Jesus, Jacquelyn Grant Black Religion & Black Radicalism, Gayraud Wilmore The Certain Sound of […]

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Black Theology and Black Power, James Cone The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin God of the Oppressed,  James Cone The Hip Hop Wars,  Tricia Rose Inheriting Our Mothers’ Gardens Edited by Letty M. Russell, Kwok Pui-lan, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Is God a White Racist? William R. Jones Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman Mis-Education of […]

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The Black Megachurch – Tamela Tucker-Worgs Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities – Robert Michael Franklin Survival and Liberation – Carroll Watkins Ali Walkin’ the Talk: Keeping the Faith in Africentric Congregations – Julia Speller Sexuality and the Black Church – Kelly Brown Douglas The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander […]

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