Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index.

Black tongues of fire : Afro-Pentecostalism's shifting strategies and changing discourses / Estrelda Y. Alexander, Amos Yong -- The Azuza Street Mission and historic Black churches : two worlds in conflict in Los Angeles' African American community / Cecil M. Robeck Jr. -- Navigating the territory : early Afro-Pentecostalism as a movement within Black civil society / David D. Daniels III -- Laying the foundations for Azuza : Black women and public ministry in the nineteenth century / Valerie C. Cooper -- Church mothers and Pentecostals in the modern age / Clarence E. Hardy III -- Rites of lynching and rights of dance : historic, anthropological, and Afro-Pentecostal perspectives on Black manhood after 1865 / Craig Scandrett-Leatherman -- Crossing over Jordan : navigating the music of heavenly bliss and earthly desire in the lives and careers of three twentierth-century African American Holiness-Pentecostal "crossover" artists / Louis B. Gallien Jr. -- Pentecostal ethics and the prosperity gospel : is there a prophet in the house? / Cheryl J. Sanders -- Ethics in a prophetic mode : reflections of an Afro-Pentecostal radical / Leonard Lovett -- Pneumatology : contributions from African American Christian thought to the Pentecostal theological task / Willam C. Turner Jr. -- On the compatibility/incompatibility of Pentecostal premillenialism with Black Liberation theology / Frederick L. Ware -- Black Joseph : early African American charismatic missions and Pentecostal-charismatic engagements with the African motherland / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Meeting beyond these shores : Black Pentecostalism, Black theology, and the global context / Dale T. Irvin.