The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology

Katie G. Cannon is Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education.Anthony B Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University.

There is much to explore and celebrate about this long overdue update to the vast scope of African American theology, past and future. To be sure, this volume is for scholars and serious students as it offers an important, valid and expanded view of doctrines, internal debates and on-going challenges. To this end, the handbook's strength lies in its structure and in its use of womanist scholarship as more than an addendum, but rather as valuable and necessary contributors to African American theology.

• Introduction ; Anthony B. Pinn and Katie G. Cannon ; Section One: Sources ; Chapter One - African American History and African American Theology - Stephen C. Finley ; Chapter Two - Reading and Using Scripture in the African American Tradition - Allen Callahan ; Chapter Three - African American Religious Experience - M. Shawn Copeland ; Chapter Four - The African American Christian Tradition - Sylvester Johnson ; Chapter Five - Culture/Cultural Production and African American Theology - Clarence E. Hardy, III ; Chapter Six - Reason in African American Theology - Terrence L. Johnson ; Chapter Seven - Theoretical Commitments in African American Theology - Edward P. Antonio ; Chapter Eight - Methodologies in African American Theology - Frederick L. Ware ; Section Two: Doctrines ; Chapter Nine - Doctrine of God in African American Theology - Keri Day ; Chapter Ten - Christology in African American Theology - Diane L. Hayes ; Chapter Eleven - Holy Spirit in African American Theology - James H. Evans, Jr. ; Chapter Twelve - Humanity in African American Theology - J. Cameron Carter ; Chapter Thirteen - World/Creation in African American Theology - Torin Alexander ; Chapter Fourteen - Liberation in African American Theology - Juan Floyd-Thomas ; Chapter Fifteen - Evil and Sin in African American Theology - Larry Murphy ; Chapter Sixteen - Church in African American Theology - R. Drew Smith ; Chapter Seventeen - Eschatology in African American Theology - Derek S. Hicks ; Chapter Eighteen - Heaven and Hell in African American Theology - Eboni Marshall Turman ; Section Three: Internal Debates ; Chapter Nineteen - Womanist Theology as Corrective to African American Theology - Cheryl Kirk-Duggan ; Chapter Twenty - Humanism in African American Theology - Anthony B. Pinn ; Chapter Twenty-One - Audiences of Accountability in African American Theology - Dennis W. Wiley ; Chapter Twenty-Two - Embodiment in African American Theology - Stephanie Y. Mitchem ; Chapter Twenty-Three - Pedagogical Praxis in African American Theology - Katie G. Cannon ; Chapter Twenty-Four - Religious Pluralism and African American Theology - Dianne Diakite ; Chapter Twenty-Five - Sexuality in African American Theology - Horace Griffin ; Section Four: Ongoing Challenges ; Chapter Twenty-Six - The Problem of History in African American Theology - Lewis R. Gordon ; Chapter Twenty-Seven - Social Theory and African American Theology - Corey D. B. Walker ; Chapter Twenty-Eight - Black Ontology and Theology - Victor Anderson ; Chapter Twenty-Nine - African American Theology and the Global Economy - Anthony G. Reddie ; Chapter Thirty - African American Theology and the American Hemisphere - Josef Sorett ; Chapter Thirty-One - The African in African American Theology - Peter J. Paris ; Section Five: Prospects for the Future ; Chapter Thirty-Two - Prosperity Gospel and African American Theology - Jonathan L. Walton ; Chapter Thirty-Three - African American Theology and the Public Imaginary - Willie Jennings ; Chapter Thirty-Four - Cultural Boundaries and African American Theology - Emilie M. Townes