Preface to the Anniversary Edition

Preface

"Look, a Negro!" how the New World African became an object of history

Part One: Constructing terror. "How much for a young Buck?" slave auction and identity

Rope neckties : lynching and identity

Part Two: Waging war. Houses of prayer in a hostile land : responses of Black religion to terror

Covert practices : further responses of Black religion to terror

"I'll make me a world" : Black religion as historical context

Part Three: Seeking triumph. Crawling backward : toward a theory of Black religion's center

Finding the center : methodological issues considered

Part Four: Critical reflections. "We can feel the spirit in this!" : a Black pentecostal, Black Atlantic dialogue with Terror and triumph / Robert Beckford

Reflections on Terror and triumph at twenty years : contributions and lingering questions / Keri Day

Blackness, indigenous Africa, and the essence of Black religion in Terror and triumph : the nature of Black religion / Sylvester Johnson

The triumph of Terror and triumph : the nature of Black religion / Anthony G. Reddie

Rituals of reference : Anthony Pinn, Frantz Fanon, and ontological yearning / Calvin Warren

Capturing the beauty of materialism : Black bodies, ontic desires, and processes of humanization / Carol Wayne White

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index to the main text.