Themes in African American religious history -- Middle Passage for the gods : African and African American religions, from the Middle Passage to the Great Awakening -- The birth of Afro-Christianity in the slave quarters and the urban North, 1740-1831 -- Through the night : African American religion in the Antebellum Era -- Day of Jubilee : Black churches from Emancipation to the era of Jim Crow -- Jesus on the Main Line : Black Christianity from the Great Migration through World War II -- Freedom's Main Line : African American Christianity, civil rights, and religious pluralism -- Righteous anger and visionary dreams : contemporary Black religion, politics, and culture.