COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: RETHINKING W. E. B. DU BOIS, RETHINKING RELIGION AND RACE -- CHAPTER ONE: THE HERO WITH A BLACK FACE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF SELF -- CHAPTER TWO: RACE AS COSMIC SIGHT IN THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK -- CHAPTER THREE: A DARK MONK WHO WROTE HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY: THE SPIRITUAL WAGE OF WHITENESS, THE BLACK CHURCH, AND MYSTICAL AFRICA -- CHAPTER FOUR: BLACK MESSIAHS AND MURDEROUS WHITES: VIOLENCE AND FAITH IN LITERARY EXPRESSION -- CHAPTER FIVE: CHRIST WAS A COMMUNIST: RELIGION FOR AN AGING LEFTIST -- EPILOGUE: THE PASSING OF THE PROPHET -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.