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Marla Faye Frederick [1] [2] is an American ethnographer and scholar, with a focus on the African American religious experience. Her work addresses a range of topics including race, gender, religion and media studies. [3] She became the eighteenth Dean of Harvard Divinity School on January 1, 2024. [4]
The SSBR was founded in 1970 to support black religious scholars' critical inquiry into the foundations of black theology. [2] The intellectual ferment which led to the group's founding began with Joseph B. Washington's publication of the seminal Black Religion in 1964, [3] and continued with the publication of James H. Cone's Black Theology and Black Power in 1969.
African-American Jews belong to each of the major American Jewish denominations—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform—as well as minor religious movements within Judaism. Like Jews with other racial backgrounds , there are also African-American Jewish secularists and Jews who may rarely or never participate in religious practices. [ 86 ]
Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange -- a Black Catholic nun who founded the United States’ first African American religious congregation in Baltimore in 1829 -- has advanced another step toward sainthood.
Dianne M. Stewart is the author of Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience (Oxford University Press, 2005), Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage (Seal Press, 2020) and Obeah, Orisa and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume II, Orisa: Africana Nations and the Power of ...
Anthony B. Pinn is an American professor working at the intersections of African-American religion, constructive theology, and humanist thought. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. [1]
Pages in category "African-American Christian clergy" The following 142 pages are in this category, out of 142 total. ... This page was last edited on 19 May 2024, at ...
Americans have been disaffiliating from organized religion over the past few decades. About 63% of Americans are Christian, according to the Pew Research Center, down from 90% in the early 1990s.