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Teaching African American Religions

Carolyn M. Jones and Theodore Louis Trost

Abstract

The variety and complexity of its traditions make African American religion one of the most difficult topics in religious studies to understand. The sheer scope of the subject is daunting to anyone wanting to learn about it, especially if they are not experts in African American religious traditions. Also, the unfamiliarity of the subject matter to the vast majority hoping to investigate the subject makes it difficult to achieve any depth of understanding. The chapters in this book will supply functional, innovative ways to teach African American religious traditions in a variety of settings.

Keywords: African American, religious studies, religious traditions, teaching, the United States

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2005 Print ISBN-13: 9780195167979
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2006 DOI:10.1093/019516797X.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Carolyn M. Jones, editor
University of Georgia
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Theodore Louis Trost, editor
University of Alabama

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Teaching African American Religions

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction:

Carolyn M. Jones and Theodore Louis Trost

Part I The Classroom as Contact Zone

1 Teaching in the Contact Zone:

Carolyn M. Jones

2 On the Plantation

Nancy A. Hardesty

3 Border Disputes:

Stephanie Y. Mitchem

4 Incorporating the African American Religious Experience into the Community College Curriculum and Classroom

Mary Jane Horton

5 “I Want to Be Ready!”:

Yolanda Y. Smith

Part II Challenges to the Textual Canon and the Regnant History

6 “Testifying” and “Testimony”:

Moses N. Moore Jr.

7 Rethinking the Core:

Edwin David Aponte

8 Acknowledging Diversity in the American Catholic Experience

Bernadette McNary-Zak

9 “Making a Way Out of No Way”:

Daphne C. Wiggins

10 Tribal Talk:

Will “Esuyemi” Coleman Transcribed by Elizabeth Tanner

Part III Decoding and Other Modes of Analysis

11 Teaching from the Crossroads:

Linda L. Barnes

12 Teaching African American Religions as Learning to Resist Racism

Peter R. Gathje

13 Teaching African Religions at a Traditionally White Institution in the South

Ralph C. Watkins

14 Watching for Religion and Race at the Movies

Theodore Louis Trost

Afterword:

Emilie M. Townes

End Matter

Index