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ISSN: 1094-902X
Volume 3, Number 1 (Fall 1999)
Online Documents, Projects, and Exhibits
History Matters
A rich, interactive site for the study and teaching of U.S. History created by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Focusing on the lives of ordinary people, the project contains materials from 1876 to 1946 Many of the documents focus on African-American life and the site contains both a table of contents of documents and a search function to help you find materials of interest..The Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs
Digitized by the Special Collections department of the University of Virginia Library, this site contains "4,500 photographs of African-American educational scenes in the southern United States taken by Jackson Davis during the period 1915-1930 when he was affiliated with the General Education Board in New York, New York. Davis served as a field agent, as the board's general field agent, as associate director in 1933 and as vice-president and director in 1946."Documenting the American South
This project of digitized primary sources, sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is organized into five sections: First Person Narratives of the American South, Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865, and The Church in the Southern Black Community. Reginald Hildebrand, Laurie Maffly-Kipp, and Donald G. Matthews serve as advisors for the black church project.Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography
Charles Bolton, Director of the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Missouri, sponsors this resource for finding interviews with participants in the Civil Rights Movement. One can navigate the site according to the name of the interviewee or by subject and it also contains a cross-referenced list of libraries that hold video tapes, audio tapes, and/or transcripts of interviews.The Religious Movements Page
The University of Virginia professor Jeffrey K. Hadden established this web site in conjunction with a course on New Religious Movements. It has grown into a large resource, both for teaching and for research. Particularly useful is the section of profiles of religious movements (most written by UVA students), many of which contain links to the web pages of the groups themselves.Malcolm X: A Research Site
Created and maintained by the Africana Studies Program of the University of Toledo, the site contains a chronology of Malcolm's life, bibliographies, online texts and audio files, a study guide, and a page with information on the extended Little/Shabazz family.Azusa Street
This site contains online versions of the 1906 and 1907 volumes of The Apostolic Faith as well as other documents about the Azusa Street Pentecostal revival.
Spotlight On: Black Nova Scotia
In order to facilitate research and teaching on understudied aspects of African-American religious history, we will, on occasion, profile useful websites on a particular theme. This spotlight provides links to a number of sites to supplement your reading of Joanna Brooks' article on John Marrant's Journal.
Birchtown Archaeology: Excavating a Black Loyalist Settlement in Nova Scotia
Father and Mother Divine's International Peace Mission Movement
In addition to information about the current activities of the Peace Mission Movement, the site contains some a range of documents, including sermons, articles, and photographs.St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church
An outgrowth of the "One Mind Temple Evolutionary Transitional Body of Christ," founded in 1971 and dedicated to the principles espoused in saxophonist John Coltrane's recording "A Love Supreme," the San Francisco group became part of the African Orthodox Church in 1984.Union of Black Episcopalians
Founded in Delaware in 1968, this organization seeks to "eradicate every vestige of racism within the Episcopal Church, and wherever else in our society it exists."Unity Fellowship Church
Home page of the Los Angeles mother church of this movement. The church's statement reads: "At Unity Fellowship Church, we know that God created us just like we are.... Black, White, Latino, Native, Asian.... gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender, & straight.... whether your background is Baptist, COGIC, Apostolic, Catholic, AME, or Buddhist, know that you are welcome!" Contains links to churches in New York City, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Newark, Atlanta, Seattle, Riverside, and Long Beach, CA.The Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Inc.
Website of the holiness denomination founded in 1903 by Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate and in which women have always been prominent as overseers, bishops, and deaconesses.
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion
The Steering Committee of the Afro-American Religious History Group of the AAR has announced the following program for the annual meeting to be
held in Boston, November 20-23, 1999Saturday 3:45pm– 6:15 pm
Theme: Unheard Voices in African American Religions
Yvonne Chireau, Swarthmore College, Presiding
Patrick Minges, Union Theological Seminary, New York
All My Slaves, Whether Negroes, Indians, Mustees, or Mulattoes: Toward a Thick Description of Slave Religion
Leslie R. James, DePauw University
Religion, Race, and National Idealism: The House of Israel in Guyana
Timothy Miller, University of Kansas
Black Jews, Black Christians: The Bipartite Evolution of the Church of God and Saints in Christ
Stephen W. Angell, Florida A&M University, Business Meeting
Rosemary D. Gooden, DePaul University, Business Meeting.Monday 1:00pm– 3:30pm
Theme: African-American Religion in New Orleans
Jualynne E. Dodson, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding
Virginia M. Gould, Our Lady of Holy Cross College
Piety, Social Activism, and the Dynamics of Race: Henriette Delille and the Founding of the Sisters of the Holy Family, 1842
Richard B. Turner, DePaul University
Mardi Gras Indians, Voodoo, Jazz Funerals, and Black Catholics: Religion, Race, and Identity in Black New Orleans
Rosalind F. Hinton, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, Northwestern University
Minute by Minute: Case Studies from the Leaders and Stewards of an African American Methodist Church, New Orleans, Lousiana, 1896-1906
Larry G. Murphy, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, RespondentTuesday 9:00am– 11:30am
Theme: Christianity, Race, and Opposition to the African-American Freedom Movement in the South
Joint session with the North American Religions Section
Donald G. Mathews, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding
David Chappell, University of Arkansas
Religious Themes in Segregationist Propoganda
Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
Church Camping and White Southern Manhood: Evangelical Males and Christian Primitivism, 1945-1970
Lauren F. Winner, Cambridge University
“Jim Crow Is Our Finest Friend”: Black Christians in Defense of Segregation
Lewis Baldwin, Vanderbilt University, Respondent
The members of the Religion Department of Reed College invite applicants for a tenure track position. They plan to appoint at the assistant professor level; queries and applications from more senior scholars, however, may be considered. The position will begin in the academic year 2000-01. The department seeks applicants who specialize in African-American Religious History. Above all, candidates should be instructors with a strong commitment to teaching excellence at the undergraduate level. They should also be self-aware in method and knowledgeable of the various theories and practices current in the critical study of religion, including theories of race and social identity. The successful candidate will teach an introduction to his or her area of specialization, advanced seminars, and participate in the team-taught interdisciplinary Western humanities program. All members of the Religion department also advise senior theses as required by the college. We will begin to review applications on November 9 and will continue to accept applications until the position is filled. We will also be conducting preliminary interviews at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Please send letter, CV, and three letters of recommendation to Steven M. Wasserstrom, Chair, Search Committee in Religion, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock, Portland, OR 97202. Reed College is an equal opportunity employer.
The University of Georgia Religion Department seeks Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in New Testament Studies for Fall 2000. Qualifications: Ph.D. or equivalent in New Testament - strengths in any area, e.g., Gospel or Paul. Competence in New Testament gender issues highly desirable. Language (especially Greek), theoretical, and methodological knowledge and skills requisite for academic study of New Testament; disposition and interest to engage departmental colleagues representing various areas; and openness to communicate with wider University and public regarding the academic study of religion. Teach four courses per year, including introductory religion; student advisory responsibilities; and other duties appropriate to a large, state university that emphasizes research and teaching. The Department offers B.A. and M.A., and is proposing Ph.D. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Nominations are welcomed. Send ONLY: a 2-3 page letter of interest and qualifications, a complete vitae, and a list of 3-5 references with appropriate contact information. Applications postmarked by December 15, 1999 are assured of consideration. Send to: Dr. Thomas Slater, Chair, New Testament Search Committee, Religion Department, UGA, Athens, Georgia 30602. Direct questions to: tslater@arches.uga.edu or (706) 542-5356. UGA is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer.
Womanist Scholars Fellowship, Black Women and Religion/Spirituality. The Womanist Scholars Program is a component of the Black Women in Church and Society Program at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The program provides affirming, creative, intellectual opportunity for womanist scholars to engage in scholarship that will impact the academy, church and community. Two visiting scholars, engaged in significant scholarly work on issues affecting Black women and religion and spirituality, are appointed annually. The Womanist Scholars Program is designed to assist Black women scholars who are seeking sabbatical support, or support for a specific research project. The Program requires one academic year in residence and awards a fellowship of $35,000. For information and application packet please contact A. Elaine Crawford, Ph.D., Womanist Scholars Program Coordinator; 404-527-7740; mbellinger@itc.edu; or 700 Martin Luther KingDrive, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30314. The application and supporting materials must be postmarked by November 1, 1999.
Harvard Divinity School announces several full-time positions as Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer in Women's Studies in Religion for 2000-01. Full-time residence during the '00-'01 academic year while conducting proposed individual research projects for publication, design and teaching of a one- semester course related to research project in the appropriate Divinity School department: Hebrew Bible; New Testament; History of Christianity; History of Religion; Theology; Ethics; or Religion and Society. The positions are open to candidates with doctorates in religion, to those with primary competence in other fields of the humanities and the social sciences who have serious interest in religion, and to leading religion professionals with equivalent achievements. Salary: $40,000 plus benefits. Completed applications must be received by November 15, 1999. Information and application forms may be requested from Dr. Ann Braude, Director of Women's Studies in Religion, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138.
The Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale is accepting applications for Residential and Non-residential Fellowships for the 2000-2001 academic year. Three Residential Fellows (two senior scholars and one junior scholar) who work on American religion, race, and ethnicity will be selected. Non-residential Fellowships will fund students writing dissertations and scholars completing first books. The deadline for applications is November 15.
The Leadership Center at Morehouse College announces a new research initiative on The Public Influences of African-American Churches, directed by The Rev. R. Drew Smith. The project aims to "examine the impact of African-American churches on important public issues and debates within American society over the last thirty years." The primary goals are "to mobilize a new generation of scholarship on black church involvements in public life" and "to disseminate the research findings in religious, scholarly, and public venues via seminars, conferences, publications, and a web site." For more information, contact The Leadership Center at Morehouse College, 830 Westview Drive, SW, Atlanta, GA 30314-3773. 404 / 614-8565.
Call for Papers: "W.E.B. Du Bois, Race and the New Millenium: A Symposium Celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of the Publication of The Souls of Black Folk," March 23-25, 2000
Deadline for Submissions: October 15, 1999
Mercer University in Macon, Georgia invites both senior scholars and graduate students to submit papers for consideration for an inter-disciplinary symposium assessing the way DuBois' theories of race have structured racial discourse in the past century and their applicability for the new millenium. The meeting will focus on the place of The Souls of Black Folk, DuBois' most prominent work, in the analysis of race. Proposals should examine the concepts DuBois presents as cultural markers of racial difference.
Submission Guidelines for Papers/Panel Presentations: Proposals should be 250 words and contain information consistent with an abstract, including the specific disciplinary/interdisciplinary focus, other texts that will be examined in the presentation, and a concise statement that locates the way Du Bois theories of race have structured racial discourse in the 20th century. Papers should not exceed 15-20 minutes.How to Submit Paper/Panel Proposals: You may submit your proposals either via e-mail <dubois@mercer.edu>, or fax (912) 301-2457, or mail to: Dubois Symposium, English Department, Mercer University, 1400 Coleman Avenue, Macon, GA 31207
Social Science Research Council: Research Fellowships for 2000-2001
Religion and Immigration
The SSRC offers predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships for research on the relationship of religion to the incorporation of immigrants into American life. The goal is to foster innovative research that will illuminate how immigrant and native-born religious beliefs, practices, identities, groups, and institutions affect patterns of immigrant settlement in the United States. Funding is available to scholars of diverse disciplinary specializations and applicants are encouraged to, but not required, to adopt historical or transnational perspectives and to focus on religion as it affects immigrants’ participation in American civic life.Minority Summer Dissertation Workshop
Students from minority ethnic and racial backgrounds can apply for fellowships to participate in a three-week summer workshop designed to help their development of dissertation research projects and funding proposals on all topics related to international migration to the United States.
Applications must be postmarked by: January 12, 2000. For application forms and information regarding eligibility requirements contact: Fellowships on Religion and Immigration, Social Science Research Council, 810 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 11373. E-mail: religion@ssrc.org.Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York announces the founding of the Archives of Women in Theological Scholarship. The archives "will initially include the collections of twently women and five institutions closely associated with their work," with Phyllis Tribel, Beverly Widung Harrison, Mary Boys, Madeline Sue Seid-Martin, Carter Heyward, Suzanne Hiatt, and the historical collection of the UTS Women's Center represented at this time. "The project is also serving to document such collective struggles as the movement to ordain women to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church and the efforts of the Re-Imagining Community." Visit the website for more information on the available collections for research purposes, upcoming events, supporting the AWTS through financial contributions or a donation of records to the collection.
Recent Books, Articles, and Dissertations
The African American Pulpit (Fall 1999) [Includes sermons by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Gardner C. Taylor and Harold Dean Trulear]
Katherine Clay Bassard, Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender and Community in Early African American Women's Writings (Princeton, 1999).
Will Coleman, Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and African/American Ways of "Telling the Story" (Penn State, 1999).
James H. Cone, Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968—1998 (Beacon, 1999).
Quinton Hosford Dixie and Cornel West, eds., The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption (Beacon, 1999).
John Gray, "Soul Force 101: Yoruba Sacred Music, Old World and New," Descarga.com, 05/23/99.
Fredrick C. Harris, Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism (Oxford, 1999).
Glenn Hinson, Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel (University of Pennsylvania, 1999).
Robert R. Howard, Bibliography of African-American Preaching, Homiletic, 23/2 (Winter 1998): 21-23.
Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Illinois, 1999).
Andrew M. Manis, A Fire You Can't Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth (Alabama, 1999).
Randall Miller and Jon L. Wakelyn, eds., Catholics in the Old South (Mercer, 1999).
Larry G. Murphy, ed., Down By the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion (New York University, 1999).
Robert A. Orsi, ed., Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape (Indiana, 1999).
Anthony B. Pinn, Varieties of African American Religious Experience (Fortress, 1998).
Anthony B. Pinn, ed., Making the Gospel Plain : The Writings of Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom (Trinity, 1999).
William S. Pollitzer, The Gullah People and Their African Heritage (Georgia, 1999)
Albert J. Raboteau, African American Religion (Oxford, 1999).
Lamin Sanneh, Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa (Harvard, 2000).
Milton C. Sernett, ed., African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, Second Edition (Duke, 1999).
Gardner C. Taylor and Edward L. Taylor, The Words of Gardner Taylor Vol. 1: The NBC Radio Sermons, 1959-1970 (Judson, 1999).
Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin, eds., The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present (Indiana, 1999).
Dissertations:
Mary Ann Clark, "Asho Orisha (Clothing of the Orisha): Material Culture as Religious Expression in Santeria," Rice University, 1999.
Willie Earl Walker III, "Prophetic Articulations: James Baldwin and the Racial Formation of the United States," Princeton University, 1999.
Nathan William Francis Schlueter, "One Dream or Two? Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.," University of Dallas, 1999.
Robin Daniel Sylvan, "Traces of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music," University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998.
Traki Lynn Taylor, "God's School on the Hill: Nannie Helen Burroughs and the National Training School for Women and Girls, 1909-1961," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.
Robin Regina Ford, "Exclusion From Paradise: Spirituality in the Works of Toni Morrison," California State University, Fresno, 1998.
Craig Devine Townsend, "An Inexpedient Time: Race and Religion Among New York City Epsicopalians, 1809-1853," Harvard University, 1998.
Tracy Elaine Hucks, "Approaching the African God: An Examination of African American Yoruba History from 1959 to the Present," Harvard University 1998.
Felecia Ann Dix, "Race, Religion, and the Inmate Culture: An Interpretation of the Development of Islam in American Prisons," Florida State University, 1997.
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