This Far by Faith is a 2003 six-hour PBS television series that traced the role of religion in the lives of African-Americans. Its website includes background, experts and other resources.

The University of North Carolina’s digital archive, “Documenting the American South,” includes a history on the southern black community and documentation of the past.

Read a brief history and review of scholarly surveys on community outreach by black churches, by John J. DiIulio Jr. at the Manhattan Institute Web site.

Read the three-part essay about African Americans and religion in the nineteenth century written by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, associate professor of religious studies and American studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The Hartford Seminary’s Encyclopedia of Religion and Society posts an article on “African American Religious Experience,” edited by William H. Swatos Jr.

Amherst College’s ambitious project, “African-American Religion: A Documentary History Project,” was begun in 1987. It compiled a comprehensive history of African-American religion in a three-volume work published by the University of Chicago Press.

Read an essay at the Hartford Seminary’s Faith Communities Today area about African American denominations from the past to the present.

The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is a membership organization of more than 250 graduate schools in the U.S. and Canada. The organization conducts professional and academic degree programs on the practice of ministry for teaching and research in the theological discipline.

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is a national, nonprofit think tank that conducts research on public policy issues concerning African-Americans and offers training and technical assistance to newly elected black officials.