Dwight N. Hopkins, Sheila Greeve Davaney

• Introduction, Dwight N. Hopkins; Part 1 One Theory; Chapter 1 Mapping Theologies: An Historicist Guide to Contemporary Theology, Sheila Greeve Davaney; Chapter 2 Toward A Materialist Christian Social Criticism: Accommodation and Culture Reconsidered, Mary Mcclintock Fulkerson; Chapter 3 Transcendence and Material Culture, David Batstone; Chapter 4 The Post-Modern Location of Black Religion: Texts and Temporalities in Tension, James A. Noel; Chapter 5 Theology and Popular Culture, Kathryn Tanner; Part 2 Two Method; Chapter 6 Tracking Spirit: Theology As Cultural Critique in America, Mark Mcclain Taylor; Chapter 7 Passing on the Spark: A Womanist Perspective on Theology and Culture, Karen Baker-Fletcher; Chapter 8 Theological Method and Cultural Studies: Slave Religious Culture as a Heuristic, Dwight N. Hopkins; Part 3 Three Application; Chapter 9 The Recovery of Sacred Myth: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, James Evans; Chapter 10 Liberation as Risky Business, Bill Smith; Chapter 11 Culture and Politics in Black and African Theologies, Edward P. Antonio; Chapter 12 Conclusion: Changing Conversations: Impetuses and Implications, Sheila Greeve Davaney;

"This reader is a rich feast of little-known American religious delicacies often squeezed off the table by an older understanding of the proper menu. It brings together some of the best in recent scholarship and introduces its readers to just how wonderfully varied and complicated our story is." -- Nancy Ammerman, Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Hartford Seminary, and co-editor of Work, Family, and Religion In AmericanCulture (Routledge)."... timely and provocative ...""Changing Conversations is a breakthrough in contemporary constructive theology." -- Journal of Religion

Dwight N. Hopkins, Sheila Greeve Davaney

• Introduction, Dwight N. Hopkins; Part 1 One Theory; Chapter 1 Mapping Theologies: An Historicist Guide to Contemporary Theology, Sheila Greeve Davaney; Chapter 2 Toward A Materialist Christian Social Criticism: Accommodation and Culture Reconsidered, Mary Mcclintock Fulkerson; Chapter 3 Transcendence and Material Culture, David Batstone; Chapter 4 The Post-Modern Location of Black Religion: Texts and Temporalities in Tension, James A. Noel; Chapter 5 Theology and Popular Culture, Kathryn Tanner; Part 2 Two Method; Chapter 6 Tracking Spirit: Theology As Cultural Critique in America, Mark Mcclain Taylor; Chapter 7 Passing on the Spark: A Womanist Perspective on Theology and Culture, Karen Baker-Fletcher; Chapter 8 Theological Method and Cultural Studies: Slave Religious Culture as a Heuristic, Dwight N. Hopkins; Part 3 Three Application; Chapter 9 The Recovery of Sacred Myth: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, James Evans; Chapter 10 Liberation as Risky Business, Bill Smith; Chapter 11 Culture and Politics in Black and African Theologies, Edward P. Antonio; Chapter 12 Conclusion: Changing Conversations: Impetuses and Implications, Sheila Greeve Davaney;

"This reader is a rich feast of little-known American religious delicacies often squeezed off the table by an older understanding of the proper menu. It brings together some of the best in recent scholarship and introduces its readers to just how wonderfully varied and complicated our story is." -- Nancy Ammerman, Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Hartford Seminary, and co-editor of Work, Family, and Religion In AmericanCulture (Routledge)."... timely and provocative ...""Changing Conversations is a breakthrough in contemporary constructive theology." -- Journal of Religion

Dwight N. Hopkins, Sheila Greeve Davaney

• Introduction, Dwight N. Hopkins; Part 1 One Theory; Chapter 1 Mapping Theologies: An Historicist Guide to Contemporary Theology, Sheila Greeve Davaney; Chapter 2 Toward A Materialist Christian Social Criticism: Accommodation and Culture Reconsidered, Mary Mcclintock Fulkerson; Chapter 3 Transcendence and Material Culture, David Batstone; Chapter 4 The Post-Modern Location of Black Religion: Texts and Temporalities in Tension, James A. Noel; Chapter 5 Theology and Popular Culture, Kathryn Tanner; Part 2 Two Method; Chapter 6 Tracking Spirit: Theology As Cultural Critique in America, Mark Mcclain Taylor; Chapter 7 Passing on the Spark: A Womanist Perspective on Theology and Culture, Karen Baker-Fletcher; Chapter 8 Theological Method and Cultural Studies: Slave Religious Culture as a Heuristic, Dwight N. Hopkins; Part 3 Three Application; Chapter 9 The Recovery of Sacred Myth: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, James Evans; Chapter 10 Liberation as Risky Business, Bill Smith; Chapter 11 Culture and Politics in Black and African Theologies, Edward P. Antonio; Chapter 12 Conclusion: Changing Conversations: Impetuses and Implications, Sheila Greeve Davaney;

"This reader is a rich feast of little-known American religious delicacies often squeezed off the table by an older understanding of the proper menu. It brings together some of the best in recent scholarship and introduces its readers to just how wonderfully varied and complicated our story is." -- Nancy Ammerman, Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Hartford Seminary, and co-editor of Work, Family, and Religion In AmericanCulture (Routledge)."... timely and provocative ...""Changing Conversations is a breakthrough in contemporary constructive theology." -- Journal of Religion