Previously published: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c1999.

Includes bibliographical references.

Black faith and religious themes. Black theology and human identity / Cornel West ; The black church and religious freedom / Stephen L. Carter ; African American thought : the discovery of fragments / David Tracy -- Black faith and prophetic faith communities. Black theology on theological education / Dwight N. Hopkins ; Racism and the church : an inquiry into the contradictions between experience, doctrine, and theological theory / Jamie T. Phelps ; Black leadership, faith, and the struggle for freedom / Manning Marable ; Black theology and the parish ministry / J. Alfred Smith, Sr. ; An underground theology / Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. -- Black faith and women. Searching for a paradise in a world of theme parks / Emilie M. Townes ; Servanthood revisited : womanist explorations of servanthood theology / Jacquelyn Grant ; Disrupted/disruptive movements : black theology and black power 1969/1999 / Renee Leslie Hill ; Reimagining public discourse / Rebecca S. Chopp -- Black faith and the Third World. Liberation theology and African women's theologies / Rosemary Radford Ruether ; Emancipatory Christianity / Linda E. Thomas ; Black Latin American theology : a new way to sense, to feel, and to speak of God / Silvia Regina de Lima Silva -- Black faith, James H. Cone, and the future of black theology. Race and civil society : a democratic conversation / Jean Bethke Elshtain and Christopher Beem ; Comparing the public theologies of James H. Cone and Martin Luther King, Jr. / Peter J. Paris ; Black theology at the turn of the century : some unmet needs and challenges / Gayraud S. Wilmore ; Looking back, going forward : black theology as public theology / James H. Cone.