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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.

History

Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans by Albert J. Raboteau
Publication Date: 2001
Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women's Relationships in the Bible by Renita J. Weems; Nashormeh Wilkie (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 1988

Biblical studies

The Bible and African Americans: A Brief History by Vincent L. Wimbush
Publication Date: 2003
Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation by Cain H. Felder (Editor)
Publication Date: 2004
True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary by Brian K. Blount; Cain Hope Felder (Editor); Clarice J. Martin (Editor); Emerson B. Powery (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
Yet with a Steady Beat: Contemporary U.S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation by Randall C. Bailey (Editor)
Publication Date: 2003

Bible study and Christian education

Reclaiming the Spirituals: New Possibilities for African American Christian Education by Yolanda Smith
Publication Date: 2004
Soul Stories: African American Christian Education by Anne Streaty Wimberly
Publication Date: 2005
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks
Publication Date: 1994

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