Preface

Introduction



PART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS




African Indigenous Churches

The Church of the Lord (Aladura)

The Cherubim and Seraphim Church

The Church of Jesus Christ on Earth (Zaire)

Zionist Churches in South Africa

Church of Christ in Africa (Kenya)

Ingigenous Elements of Worship




Caribbean Indigenous Religions and Churches

Haitian Voodoo

Cuban Santeria

Trinidadian Shango

Jamaican Churches and Traditional Religions

Native Baptists

Myalism

Kumina

Jamaican Revivalism




Liberation Theologies in Afro Cultures

South Africa's Apartheid Culture

South African Liberation Theology

Caribbean Liberation Theology (Rastafarianism)



PART TWO: AN AFRO GRAMMAR OF FAITH




Christian Theology and Afro Cultures

Culture and the Grammer of Faith

Salvation, Sin, and Death in Afro Cultures




God: Traditional Motifs

God in African Traditional Religion

Attributes of God

Divine Ubiquity

Divine Creator

Divine Pastoral Care



The Religious Worldview of Africans




Christ: A Son Out of Egypt

Boundaries of Christology

Christ as the Anointment One

Christ as Lord of the Heavens

Christ as Healer

The Liberator and the Liberated




Spirit and Spirits: Pneumatology and Afro Cultures

The Biblical Tradition

The Dogmatic Tradition

The African Tradition

Evil Spirits and Lordship in Afro Cultures

The Spirit and Black American Religion

Spirits in Black Culture




Ancestors and Saints

Hagiolatry and the Ancestors

Ancestorship in the Caribbean

Ancestors and Black American Religion

Hagiography: Christian Saints and the Ancestors



Epilogue

Selected Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments