The golden band : African American spirituals and the hermeneutics of world / Asante U. Todd.

Introduction: On the spirituals, prophecy, and theomusicology
Part one: The cultural logic of sovereignty and the theological hermeneutics of world. African American religious and cultural criticism
The global leviathan appears
The sense of another world
Part tow: African American religious thought. Mind, body and spirit
Covenant, law, and the sound of jazz
Part three: The spirituals. Ring shout to Heaven, call and response
Nature, spirit, and song
De Lord is per-wide, Rock o'my soul, and Holy-Ghost the pilot
Roll, Jordan, roll