Introduction: mapping religious expressions and spirituality of African descendant communities / William Ackah.
Section 1: Religious expressions, traditions and identities.
Church women's legacy of power : case of U.S. African Methodist Episcopal Church / Jualynne E. Dodson
Blacksmith's razor and the vulture's head : African spirituality and the emancipation of Africa / Kofi Asare Opoku
A tale of two worlds : an early nineteenth century encounter between the Akan and the Danes and the rise of Protestantism in West Africa / Ebenezer Ayesu
The resurgence of the Presbyterian and Anglican missions in Calabar / Ekwutosi Essien Offiong
Pain and the black garment : pastoral responses to African widowhood / Elijah Baloyi
An act of theological negritude : Kwame Bediako on African Christian identity / Tim Hartmann.
Section 2: Arts, aesthetics and culture.
From Selma to Ferguson : embodied performance, social change and political organizing within the United States / Joy R. Bostic
Sounds of blackness? : struggles for freedom in 21st century congregational songs in South London / Pauline E. Muir
The Cornel West theory : prophetic criticism and the cultural production of hip hop / Michael Brandon McCormack
Politically freed yet mentally enslaved! : reflecting on Psalm 8 by way of Steve Biko's notion of black beauty / Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
Rape, rage and culture : African men's indigenous knowledge and resolutions to the rape crisis / Baba Amani Olubanjo Buntu
Responding to black youth invisibility : the black church nurturing the artist within / Sarah Farmer
Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter and the educational empowerment of Muslim women / Rizwana Latha.