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Index of Articles

Sandra L. Barnes, "A Sociological Examination of W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring 2003). Printable PDF Version.

Joanna Brooks, "John Marrant's Journal: Providence and Prophecy in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 3, Number 1 (Fall 1999). Printable PDF Version.

Randall K. Burkett, "The Reverend Harry Croswell and Black Episcopalians in New Haven, 1820-1860," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 7, Number 1 (Fall 2003). Printable PDF Version.

Charise Cheney, "Representin' God: Rap, Religion and the Politics of a Culture," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 3, Number 1 (Fall 1999). Printable PDF Version.

Dennis L. Durst, "The Reverend John Berry Meachum (1789-1854) of St. Louis: Prophet and Entrepreneurial Black Educator in Historiographical Perspective," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring 2004). Printable PDF Version.

Modupe Labode, "'A Native Knows A Native': African American Missionaries' Writings about Angola, 1919-1940," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 4, Number 1 (Fall 2000). Printable PDF Version.

Lawrence S. Little, "The African Methodist Episcopal Church Media and Racial Discourse, 1880-1900," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 1998). Printable PDF Version.

J. Gordon Melton, "African American Methodism in the M.E. Tradition: The Case of Sharp Street (Baltimore)" The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring 2005). Printable PDF Version.

Cecilia A. Moore, "Conversation and History," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 3, Number 2 (Spring 2000). Printable PDF Version.

Yolanda Pierce, "The Soul of Du Bois' Black Folk," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring 2003). Printable PDF Version.

Anthony B. Pinn, "DuBois' Souls: Thoughts on "Veiled" Bodies and the Study of Black Religion," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring 2003). Printable PDF Version.

Patrick Rael, "Black Theodicy: African Americans and Nationalism in the Antebellum North," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 3, Number 2 (Spring 2000). Printable PDF Version.

Said Sewell, III, "Lead Me, Guide Me Along the Way: A Study of the Relationship Between Pastors' Personal Characteristics and their Level of Community Participation," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 7, Number 1 (Fall 2003). Printable PDF Version.

Kenneth L. Waters, Sr., "Liturgy, Spirituality, and Polemic in the Hymnody of Richard Allen," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 2, Number 2 (Spring 1999). Printable PDF Version.

Heather Rachelle White, "Between the Devil and the Inquisition: African Slaves and the Witchcraft Trials in Cartagena de Indies," The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring 2005). Printable PDF Version.

 

Index of Reviews

Allan D. Austin, African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles, Reviewed by Richard Brent Turner, The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2002).

Miguel Barnet. AfroCuban Religions. Reviewed by Jualynne E. Dodson, The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 8, Number 1 (Fall 2004).

Andrew Billingsly, Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform. Reviewed by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 5, Number 1 (Fall 2001).

William D. Booth, A Call to Greatness: The Story of the Founding of the Progressive National Baptist Convention. Reviewed by Quinton H. Dixie. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2002).

Joanna Brooks, American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures. Reviewed by Quandra Prettyman. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring 2004).

David H. Brown, Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion. Reviewed by Jualynne E. Dodson, The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 8, Number 1 (Fall 2004).

David L. Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Reviewed by Paul Harvey. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring 2004).

Yvonne Chireau and Nathaniel Deutsch, eds., Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism. Reviewed by Stephen W. Angell. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring 2001).

Bettye Collier-Thomas, Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979.
Reviewed by Martha L. Wharton. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 4, Number 1 (Fall 2000).

Donald J. Cosentino, Vodou Things: The Art of Pierre Barra and Marie Cassaise. Reviewed by David Morgan. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 5, Number 2 (Spring 2002).

Edward E. Curtis, IV, Islam in Black America: Identity, Liberation and Difference in African American Islamic Thought. Reviewed by Lawrence H. Mamiya. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2002).

Jualynne E. Dodson, Engendering Church: Women, Power and the A.M.E. Church. Reviewed by Stephen W. Angell. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 5, Number 2 (Spring 2002).

Diana L. Eck and the Pluralism Project at Harvard University, On Common Ground: World Religions in America. Reviewed by Judith Weisenfeld. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 1998).

Douglas Egerton, He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey. Reviewed by Robert P. Forbes. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 3, Number 2 (Spring 2000).

Sharla M. Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. Reviewed by Michael Pasquier. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring 2005).

Walter Earl Fluker and Catherine Tumber, eds., A Strange Freeedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life. Reviewed by Richard Newman. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 1998).

Marla F. Frederick, Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith. Reviewed by Judith Casselberry. Reviewed by Richard Newman. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring 2004).

Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. Reviewed by Martha S. Jones. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 1, Number 2 (Spring 1998).

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America. Reviewed by Joan L. Bryant. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring 2001).

Rosemary D. Gooden, ed , Faith Cures, and Answers to Prayer: The Life and Work of the First African American Healing Evangelist. Reviewed by Bettye Collier-Thomas. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2002).

Barry Hankins, Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture. Reviewed by Merrill M. Hawkins, Jr. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring 2003).

Rachel E. Harding, A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness. Reviewed by Leslie R. James. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 5, Number 1 (Fall 2001).

Clarence E. Hardy, III, James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture. Reviewed by Sylvester Johnson. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 8, Number 1 (Fall 2004).

Paul Harvey, Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925. Reviewed by Morris L. Davis, Jr. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 2, Number 2 (Spring 1999).

Paget Henry, Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy. Reviewed by Leslie R. James. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring 2004).

Jerma A. Jackson, A Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age. Reviewed by Judith Cassleberry. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring 2005).

Pagan Kennedy, Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo. Reviewed by John Geoffrey Turner. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2002).

Obiagele Lake, RastafarI Women: Subordination in the Midst of Liberation Theology. Reviewed by Leslie R. James. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 4, Number 1 (Fall 2000).

Lawrence S. Little, Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916. Reviewed by Martha S. Jones. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring 2004).

Patrick McNaughton, John H. Hanson, dele jegede, Ruth M. Stone and N. Brian Winchester, Five Windows into Africa: A CD-ROM. Reviewed by Emmanuel K. Twesigye. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 5, Number 1 (Fall 2001).

Joycelyn Moody, Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women. Reviewed by Jean M. Humez. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 5, Number 1 (Fall 2001).

Rebecca Moore, Anthony B. Pinn, and Mary R. Sawyer, eds., People's Temple and Black Religion in America. Reviewed by Paul VanDeCarr. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 7, Number 2 (Spring 2004).

Diane Batts Morrow, Persons of Color and Religious At the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860. Reviewed by Cecilia A. Moore. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2002).

Sulayman S. Nyang, Islam in the United States of America. Reviewed by Richard Brent Turner. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2002).

Christopher H. Owen, The Sacred Flame of Love: Methodism and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia. Reviewed by Paul Harvey. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 1998).

Edward Pearson, ed., Designs Against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Slave Conspiracy of 1822. Reviewed by Robert P. Forbes. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 3, Number 2 (Spring 2000).

William E. Phipps, William Sheppard: Congo's African American Livingstone. Reviewed by John Geoffrey Turner. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 1 (Fall 2002).

Anthony B. Pinn, Varieties of African-American Religious Experience. Reviewed by Jualynne E. Dodson. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring 2001).

Patrick Arthur Polk, Haitian Vodou Flags. Folk Art and Artist Series. Reviewed by David Morgan. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 5, Number 2 (Spring 2002).

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. Library of Congress, June 4 - August 29, 1998. James H. Huston, Curator. Reviewed by Delmarshae Sledge Tinsley. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 1998).

David Robertson, Denmark Vesey. Reviewed by Robert P. Forbes. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 3, Number 2 (Spring 2000).

Carolyn Moxley Rouse, Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam. Reviewed by Edward E. Curtis, IV. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 8, Number 1 (Fall 2004).

Jon J. Sensbach, A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840. Reviewed by Jana K. Riess. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 1, Number 2 (Spring 1998).

William Seraile, Fire in His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church. Reviewed by Joan L. Bryant. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 3, Number 2 (Spring 2000).

Fredrik Sunnemark, Ring Out Freedom! The Voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. Reviewed by Corey D. B. Walker. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 8, Number 1 (Fall 2004).

Patrick Taylor, ed., Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean. Reviewed by Leslie R. James. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 5, Number 2 (Spring 2002).

Mary A. Ward., A Mission for Justice: The History of the First African-American Catholic Church in Newark, New Jersey. Reviewed by Cecilia A. Moore. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring 2003).

Daphne Wiggins, Righteous Content: Black Women's Perspectives of Church and Faith. Reviewed by Marla Frederick. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring 2005).

Werner Zips, Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters. Reviewed by Leslie R. James. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 3, Number 2 (Spring 2000)

 

Index of Documents

Advertisements for Fox's Hearts in Dixie and Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's Hallelujah! (1929), With an Introduction by Judith Weisenfeld. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume4, Number 2 (Spring 2001).

Brochure for W. Franklin Richardson's Presidential Campaign, National Baptist Convention (1999), With an Introduction by Quinton H. Dixie. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume4, Number 2 (Spring 2001).

"Mt. Olivet Baptist Church," The New York Freeman, March 21, 1885, With an Introduction by Sylvester A. Johnson. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 1998).

Newsletter of the Afro-American Religious History Group of the American Academy of Religion (Fall 1976). The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 1, Number 1 (Fall 1997).

The Remarkable Visionary Dreams of a Mulatto Boy, With an Introduction by John Saillant. The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Volume 1, Number 2 (Spring 1998).

 

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