African Americans Reading Scripture: Freeing/Revealing/Creating

Balmer Randall . “Casting Aside the Ballast of History and Tradition: White Protestants and the Bible in the Antebellum Period.” Wimbush 193–200.

Coquet Cecile . “My God Is a Time-God: How African American Folk Oratory Speaks (of) Time.” Wimbush 514–36.

Gilkes Cheryl Townsend . “The Virtues of Brotherhood and Sisterhood: African American Fraternal Organizations and Their Bibles.” Wimbush 389–403.

Gilyard Keith . “The Bible and African American Poetry.” Wimbush 205–20.

Haywood Chanta M. “Prophesying Daughters: Nineteenth-Century Black Religious Women, the Bible, and Black Literary History.” Wimbush 355–66.

Holdrege Barbara A. “Beyond the Guild: Liberating Biblical Studies.” Wimbush 138–59.

Kort Wesley A. “Take, Read”: Scripture, Textuality, and Cultural Practice. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1996.

Love Velma . “The Bible and Contemporary African American Culture I: Hermeneutical Forays, Observations, and Impressions.” Wimbush 49–65.

Mabee Charles . “African Americans and American Biblical Hermeneutics.” Wimbush 103–10.

Montgomery Maxine . “The Fire This Time: Apocalypse and the African American Novel Tradition.” Wimbush 489–500.

Murrell Nathaniel S. “Wresting the Message from the Messenger: The Rastafari as a Case Study in the Caribbean Indigenization of the Bible.” Wimbush 558–76.

Olupona Jacob K. “Sacred Cosmos: An Ethnography of African Indigenous Religious Traditions.” Wimbush 163–78.

Peterson Carla L. “Christianity as a Theater of Interiority: Emma Dunham Kelley's Fiction of the 1890s.” Wimbush 266–80.

Saillant John . “Origins of African American Biblical Hermeneutics in Eighteenth-Century Black Opposition to the Slave Trade and Slavery.” Wimbush 236–50.

Shopshire James M. “The Bible as Informant and Reflector in Social-Structural Relationships of African Americans.” Wimbush 123–37.

Smith Theophus . “T Don't Read Such Small Stuff as Letters': Phenomenology of African American Engagement with the Bible.” Wimbush 83–91.

Taussig Hal . “‘It's Not Just a Black Thing.”’ Wimbush 824–27.

Washington Margaret . “The Meanings of Scripture in Gullah Concepts of Liberation and Group Identity.” Wimbush 321–41.

Weisenfeld Judith . “‘For the Cause of Mankind’: The Bible, Racial Uplift, and Early Race Movies.” Wimbush 728–42.

Westfield N. Lynne . “Life-Giving Stories: The Bible in a Congregation.” Wimbush 577–87.

Wimbush Vincent L. , ed. African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures. New York: Continuum, 2000.

Wimbush Vincent L. , ed. “Introduction: Reading Darkness, Reading Scriptures.” Wimbush 1–43.