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Black Church Resources

This guide provides resources to support the Black Church Studies program at the Duke Divinity School. Guide created by Karen Jean Hunt.

Librarian for African & African American Studies

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Subjects: African American Studies, African Studies, Global Studies, Social Sciences

Introductions and overviews

Encyclopedia of African American Christian heritage by McMickle, Marvin Andrew
Publication Date: 2002
Encyclopedia of African American religions by Larry G. Murphy, J. Gordon Melton, and Gary L. Ward
Publication Date: 1993
Encyclopedia of African and African-American religions by Stephen D. Glazier
Publication Date: 2001

Finding books

Duke University Libraries Catalog
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eBooks
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WorldCat

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Finding articles

Search the following research databases for journal articles related to Black Church Studies.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials

Search for academic journal articles, essays, and book reviews on major world religions. Includes Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
ProQuest Black Studies
Combines primary and secondary sources, leading historical Black newspapers, archival documents, government materials, video, writings by major American Black intellectuals and leaders, and essays by top scholars in Black Studies.
Religion Database

Search for journal articles on religious studies

Finding primary sources

Finding and Using Primary Sources
A guide on defining, finding, and using primary resources in your research.
Research Databases: Primary Sources in African American Studies
Connect to Duke Libraries Research Databases that contain primary sources including newspapers, papers of civil rights activists and organizations, immigration records, and records from the slave trade.

Denominational resources

Official websites of African American church denominations.

Selected books on Black church history and theory

African American Religious Thought: An Anthology by Cornel West (Editor); Eddie S. Glaude (Editor)
Publication Date: 2003
Black Religion and Black Radicalism: An Interpretation of the Religious History of African Americans by Gayraud S. Wilmore
Publication Date: 1998
Black Theology and Black Power by James H. Cone
Publication Date: 1997
A Black Theology of Liberation by James H. Cone
Publication Date: 1970
Sexuality and the Black Church by Kelly Brown Douglas
Publication Date: 1999
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-talk by Delores S. Williams
Publication Date: 1993
Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau
Publication Date: 2004
The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible by Allen Dwight Callahan
Publication Date: 2006

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