... did it change so dramatically in the thirty years that separated Gadpaille from the bishops? How would placing Black Catholics at the center of our historical narratives change the ways we understand African American religion and Catholicism in the United States? The chapter situates the book...

... Clergy Conference on Negro Welfare MCCNW “Negro Apostolate ” Black Gods of the Metropolis Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North Fauset Fauset Arthur Huff Islam The Catholic Church and the American Negro Gillard First Church of the Deliverance Spiritualist Gillard John T African American...

... with contemporary issues in American religion. The book traces the ways in which Pagan parents transmit their religious values to their children. Rather than seeking to pass along specific religious beliefs, Pagan parents tend to seek to instill values, such as religious tolerance and spiritual independence...

..., they will not only shape American race relations, but also the face of American religion....

...This chapter builds on recent scholarship on sensory perception and materiality in American religion to explore how Protestants approach the problem of presence. With regards to Holy Land travel, it has long been assumed that US evangelicals have little connection with the material culture on site...

... Mary Roger Carmon Father Dominic Gaudium et Spes Holy Angels parish LaChapelle Father James Our Lady of Perpetual Help St Elizabeth parish Williams Father Clarence African American religion American Catholicism George Clements Black Power Black Panther Party Black nationalism Chicago...

.... Sabina’s today without first understanding the longer history of Black Catholic Chicago explored in the book. It also reviews the ways in which studies of Black Catholics introduces new characters and generates new conclusions with regard to the study of African American religion and American Catholicism...

... Bynum Juanita Cartwright Peter Hatch Nathan Hybels Bill Palau Luis “festival evangelicalism ” Palmer Phoebe Seeker sensitive church model Campolo Tony Dollar Creflo Hinn Benny Copeland Kenneth Evans Tony Kuhlman Kathryn McArthur John Skinner Arturo American religion spiritual leaders...

...This chapter introduces the dynamic of spirituality and nature in contemporary American religion. In contrast to many of the ways of understanding power and social solidarity, this book treats invisibility and paradox as features of social processes rather than analytical barriers. It is not so...

... Jamaica McKay Claude Protestant Reformation segregation Tolton Father Augustus Black Catholicism African American religion Great Migrations Black Chicago Renaissance devotionalism stations of the cross lived religion new religious movements religio-racial movements Black Church race...

... Elizabeth parish “Black Perspectives on Evangelization in the Modern World” pastoral letter Williams Mary Lou Feast of St Peter Claver “What We Have Seen and Heard” pastoral letter Gregory Archbishop Wilton D Lead Me Guide Me The African American Catholic Hymnal Lyke Bishop James P African American...

... the secular tradition and detailing the effects of the contradictions that conceal it, The Secular Paradox offers a radically new understanding of what it means to be secular and gives secular people a place in the pantheon of American religion....

... while others decline. The book provides a useful overview of contemporary evangelicalism while emphasizing the importance of “supply-side thinking” in understanding shifts in American religion. It reveals how the Christian world hosts a culture of celebrity very similar to the secular realm...

...Black Catholics are absent in most histories of U.S. Catholicism and African American religion. Drawn from a wide variety of sources, this book is a lived religious history of Black Catholics in Chicago that demonstrates how new characters and conclusions come to the fore when we move Black...