Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Dedication -- 1 Liturgical Theology in Context -- Methodological assumptions -- The Context: Worship at The Riverside Church in New York City -- The Worship Roundtable: Formation and Process -- A Scholar's Role: Turning to History -- 2 "Once You were No People … Now You are God's People": An Analytical Narrative of the Construction of African-American Protestant Liturgical Traditions -- Slave Religion: The Seedbed of African-American Protestant Worship -- Visibility, Separation, and the Solidification of Classical African-American Liturgies -- African-American Folk Religion and Improvisational Worship -- Conclusion -- 3 "Cities on Hills": An Analytical Narrative of the Construction of European-American Protestant Liturgical Traditions -- Mainline worship: from Margin to Center -- The Enthusiast stream: The Democratization of American Christianity -- Conclusion -- 4 Barriers Built, Barriers Broken: The Intersection of African-American and European-American Liturgical Traditions -- Four Currents Flowing Side by Side -- Previous Occasions of Biracial worship -- Conclusion -- 5 "Discerning the Body": US Racism, Protestant Worship and Sacramental Theology -- Racism and the Integrity of Protestant Worship -- The "Shape" of the Ecumenical Liturgical Reform Movement and African-American Liturgical Innovations -- The Multicultural Body of Christ -- Notes to text -- Bibliography -- Index.