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Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 1998)
World Wide Web Resources
Online Documents, Projects, and Exhibits
The New York Public Library has introduced a number of digital collections at its web site. The Digital Schomburg collection contains an exhibit of Images of African Americans from the 19th Century and online versions of the Schomburg's collection of African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (including works by Virginia Broughton, Julia Foote, Frances Harper, Josephine Heard, Jarena Lee, Nancy Prince, Amanda Berry Smith, Maria Stewart, and Phillis Wheatley). Both collections are designed so that users may search them by subject and keyword.
North by South: Charleston to Harlem, The Great Migrations was produced by a group of scholars who participated in a 1998 National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar, directed by Professors Will Scott and Peter Rutkoff of Kenyon College. This innovative web site provides a general introduction to the Great Migration, as well as specific information about education, health care, music, art, and death in both Charleston and Harlem.
The American Religion Data Archive, a project supported by the Lilly Endowment, includes data sets from a number of studies on American religion, including a 1992 survey of African-American Catholic Priests and Seminarians, a 1989 survey of seminarians from 115 Seminaries, 1993-1994 New Evangelical Movement congregations surveys, and the Pew Center for the People and the Press' 1996 survey on religion and politics in America. The database, free to all users, allows for comparison across data files, downloading of specific question wordings for use in surveys, and downloading of data sets. The project is ongoing and welcomes submission of additional quantatative data from studies on religion in America.
Black Catholic Archives at Marquette University
Marquette University holds three notable bodies of material relating to African American Catholics: the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice Collection, the records of the Commission for Catholic Missions Among the Colored People and the Indians within the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, and the Catholic Worker Archives of Memphis and Washington, D. C. The microfilm version of the Commission records is available from Marquette via interlibrary loan. Formerly at Marquette, but now at the Midwest Jesuit Archives (misjesuits@aol.com), are the papers of William M. Markoe, S. J., of St. Louis.
The Church of God in Christ's web site contains information on the history of the denomination, as well as about Pentecostal theology. Most of the sections are still under construction, but will be useful when complete.
The Dutch Womanist Theology site focuses on "Womanist Theology from an Afro-European perspective."
The Nation of Gods and Earths is the home page of the group more commonly known as "Five Percenters" or the "Five Percent Nation of Islam."
Womanist Theory and Research Online is produced by the Womanist Studies Consortium at the University of Georgia.
Yoruba House is a Los Angeles center for drumming circles and Ifa divination. The center offers classes in drumming and ceremonial dance, as well as in the Yoruba language.
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Volume 2, Number 1 (Fall 1998)
News and Announcements
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 Orlando, Florida - November 21-24.
Session 1: Saturday, 3:45 pm–6:15 pm
Theme: African American Religion and Nationalist Identities
Daphne C. Wiggins, Texas Christian University, Presiding
James B. Bennett, Yale University
“Until This Curse of Polygamy is Wiped Out”: Anti-Mormonism and African American Identity in the New South
Moses N. Moore, Arizona State University
Orishatukeh Faduma and the Ideological and Theological Orientations of Chief Alfred Sam’s Back-to-Africa Movement
Nora L. Rubel, Boston University
The Other House of Israel: Black Hebrews in America
Stephen W. Angell, Florida A&M University and Anthony B. Pinn, Macalester College, RespondentsBusiness Meeting
Stephen W. Angell, Florida A&M University and Rosemary D. Gooden, DePaul University, PresidingSession 2: Monday, 9:00 am–11:30 am
Theme: African American Churches and the Uses of Social Power
Sandy Dwayne Martin, University of Georgia, Presiding
Morris L. Davis, Drew University
The Color of Power: Region, Race, and Reunion in Twentieth-Century Methodism
Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
Creating a Temple and a Forum: The Harlem Unitarian Church as Sacred Black Public Sphere, 1920-1956
Stephanie Mitchem, University of Detroit Mercy
Looking for Granny: Spiritual Traditions of Healing in African American Communities
Judith Weisenfeld, Barnard College, Respondent
Other AAR Sessions of Note:
Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group: Monday 1:00pm-3:30 pm
Theme: Laying Claim to Womanist Historiography in the Discursive Spotlight of Race, Sex, and Class
Rosetta E. Ross, Interdenominational Theological Center, Presiding
Sandra E. H. Smith Blair, Graduate Theological Union
Out from the Shadows: Historical Approahces to Recovering African American Women in the Religious Narrative of Northern California, 1865-1920
Alison P. Gise Johnson, Temple University
Heckling Histories: An Historiographic Approach to Denaturalizing Constructed Whiteness and Imposed Mythical Blackness
Mndende Oscarine Nokuzola, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Womanist Theology in South Africa: Women of Color or White Souls in Black Skins?
Joy R. Bostic, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Dancing Naked under Palm Trees: Erzulie, the Virgin Mary, and Black Women’s Care for Self and Community
Stephanie Mitchem, University of Detroit Mercy
Lesson out of Class
Beverley Haddad, University of Natal, South Africa
Untold Stories of Faith: African Women and the Church in a Poor and Marginalized Community in South Africa
Evelyn L. Parker, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond
Thank You Lord...Ill Na Na: Spirituality and Sexuality in the Life of Foxy Brown
Katie Geneva Cannon, Temple University, Business MeetingHispanic American Religion, Culture, and Society Group: Monday 1:00pm-3:30 pm
Theme: Race, Mestizaje, and Conflict
Edwin D. Aponte, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
Miguel A. De La Torre, Temple University
Marti, Massacres, and Mulatto Christianity
Andrew B. Irvine, Boston University
Mestizaje and Problems of Authority
Gastón E. Espinosa, Westmont College, RespondentSpecial Topics Forum: Sponsored by the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession
Saturday 3:45-6:15
Title: Constructing New Knowledge: The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Minority Scholars on the Study of Religion
Panelists: Kwok Pui Lan, Ines M. Talamantez, Victor Anderson, Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Rita Nakashima Brock, Larry L. Rassmussen, and Letty M. Russell
Presiding: Peter J. Paris
African Americans and the Bible: An Interdisciplinary Research Project will be conducting an international, multidisciplinary conference entitled "African Americans and the Bible: Social-Cultural Formations and Sacred Texts' on April 8-11, 1999 at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Registration deadline is February 1. Contact persons are Vincent L. Wimbush, Director, and Charise Cheney, Assistant Director, 3041 Broadway, Box 30, New York, NY 10027. Phone: 212-280-1359; Fax: 212-280-1416; Email: AFAMBIBL@uts.columbia.edu.
The Future Shape of Black Religion, a conference sponsored by Wright State University's Department of Religion and the College of Liberal Arts, will focus on the topic of Religion in Race and Racism. The conference will take place March 12-13 and feature James Cone and Jacqueline Grant. For more information, call Joan Mullins, (937) 775-2274.
Drew University's Newark Project, directed by Karen McCarthy Brown, was awarded a grant by the Ford Foundation of $100,000 for programming for the 1998-99 academic year. Project participants have been mapping religion in Newark, New Jersey and conducting a walking census of the city in order to document the religious complexity of contemporary urban America. The project's goals include bringing "new perspectives to the academic study of urban religion" and contributing "to public policy discussions where the rituals and values that shape urban life are too often misunderstood and misrepresented." The Newark Project also has and archive of publications, photographs, ethnographies, and oral histories (on audio and video tape).
The University Press of Florida is proud to announce a new series on The History of African-American Religions with Series editors: Stephen M. Angell, Florida A&M University and Anthony Pinn, Macalester College
This series will further historical investigations into African-American religions, encourage the development of new paradigms and methodologies, and explore cultural influences upon African-American religious institutions. The roles of gender, race, leadership, regionalism,and folkways will be explored in this series.Send queries to:
Research Query
Dr. Stephen Angell, Department of Religious Studies, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307-4800
OR Dr. Anthony Pinn, Department of Religion, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105
Don Dachner writes: For a book titled, "A Traveler's Guide to Caribbean Religions," targeted to a readership of Caribbean travelers (tourists) who are planning a trip there, want to give the book as a gift or have returned and want some information about the development of religions in the region. This book is a combination of stories of missionaries who came to the Caribbean in the early years, such as the Moravian, Quakers and Wesleyan and some beliefs that have grown there over time such as Rastifarians, Voodoo, Shango and Santeria.The chapters include: Amerindians, Anglican, Catholic, Catholic (Jamaica), The Jombee Dance of Montserrat, Moravians, Pentecostal, Quakers, Rastifarians, The Salvation Army, Santeria, Shango, Voodoo and Wesylan. Before I go into print I want to be sure that there isn't a resource on some religion that was available, but didn't find. I can find nothing of early missionary work of the Baptists, Methodists or Lutherans in the Caribbean, but I know they were there. Email Don at: donda@juno.com
New Books:
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Harvard University Press, 1998.
James Danky, ed., African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography. Harvard University Press, 1999.
Michael B. Friedland, Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet: White Clergy and the Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements, 1954-1973. University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Philip A. Howard, Changing History: Afro-Cuban Cabildos and Societies of Color in the Nineteenth Century. Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
Manning Marable, Black Leadership. Columbia University Press, 1998.
Leo Touchet, Rejoice When You Die: New Orleans Jazz Funerals. Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
Jane Rhodes, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century. Indiana University Press, 1998.
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