Stephen W. Angell
Earlham School of Religion
228 College Avenue
Richmond, Indiana 47374-4095
(765) 983-1496 (office)
(765) 983-1688 (fax)
angelst@earlham.edu (e-mail)
Current Position
Geraldine C. Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies,
Earlham School of Religion
Education
May, 1988 Ph.D., Religion (History of Christianity), Vanderbilt University.
May, 1987 M.A., Religion, Vanderbilt University.
June, 1982 M.A., Religion (with honors), Earlham School of Religion.
May, 1974 B.A., Mathematics (cum laude), Boston University.
Employment
2001-Present Geraldine C. Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies, Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Indiana.
1990-2001 Professor of Religion, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Publications
Books
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 2018.
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds. Quakers in Business and Industry. Quakers and the Disciplines, Vol. 4. Friends Association of Higher Education Press and Full Media Services, 2017.
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds. Early Quakers and their Theological Thought, 1647-1723. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds. Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Harold D. Weaver, Jr., Paul Kriese, and Stephen W. Angell, eds. Black Fire: African-American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights. Philadelphia, PA: Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2011.
Paul Buckley and Stephen W. Angell, eds. The Quaker Bible Reader. Richmond, IN: Earlham School of Religion Press, 2006.
Stephen W. Angell and Anthony B. Pinn, eds. Social Protest Thought in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1862-1939. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
Stephen Ward Angell. Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
Lectures and Pamphlets
The Foundations of Liberal Quakerism. 45th Annual Walton Lecture. Melbourne Beach, FL: Southeastern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 2008.
A Quaker in Iran. Quaker Universalist Fellowship Pamphlet. 2010.
Book Chapters
Stephen W. Angell and John Connell, “Quakers in North America.” In The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 161-178.
Stephen W. Angell and Clare Brown, “Quakers in Education.” In The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 128-146.
Pink Dandelion and Stephen W. Angell, “Introduction.” In The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 1-10.
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, “Introduction.” In C. Wess Daniels, Robynne Rogers Healey, and Jon R. Kershner, eds., Quaker Studies, an Overview: The State of the Field. In Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies 1.1, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Brill, 2018. Pp. 3-12.
“Early Quaker Women and the Testimony of the Family, 1652-1767.” In Michele Lise Tarter and Catie Gill, eds., New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 50-68.
“The Dog That Did Not Bark: Yearly Meeting Reunifications in North America, The Case of Canada’s Yearly Meetings.” In Chuck Fager, ed., An Early Assessment: U.S. Quakerism in the 20th Century. Papers from the Quaker History Roundtable, June 8-11, 2017. Durham, NC: Kimo Press, 2017. Pp. 59-81.
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, “Introduction.” In Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Quakers, Business, and Industry, Quakers and the Disciplines, Vol. 4. Friends Association for Higher Education Press, 2017. Pp. 1-6.
“Colonizer William Penn and Engineer Herbert Hoover: How their Businesses Affected their Philanthropy and Statesmanship.” In Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Quakers, Business, and Industry, Quakers and the Disciplines, Vol. 4. Friends Association for Higher Education Press, 2017. Pp. 190-212.
Pink Dandelion and Stephen W. Angell, “Introduction.” In Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Early Quakers and their Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 1-12.
Michael Birkel and Stephen W. Angell, “The Witness of Richard Farnworth: Prophet of Light, Apostle of Church Order.” In Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Early Quakers and their Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 83-101.
“Renegade Oxonian: Samuel Fisher’s Importance in Formulating a Quaker Understanding of Scripture.” In Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Early Quakers and their Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 137-154.
“Contemporary Quaker Truth as Reflected in Seventeenth-Century Quaker Doctrinal Writing.” In Jeffrey Dudiak, ed., Befriending Truth: Quaker Perspectives, Quakers and the Disciplines 2 (Longmeadow, MA: Friends Association for Higher Education, 2015), pp. 69-81.
“Quaker Lobbying on Behalf of the New START Treaty in 2010: A Window into the World of the Friends Committee on National Legislation.” In Stanley D. Brunn, ed., The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices, and Politics. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2015. Chapter 185, pp. 3541-3558.
“Howard Brinton in Theological Context.” In Howard and Anna Brinton: Re-inventors of Quakerism in the Twentieth Century, by Anthony Manousos. Philadelphia, PA: QuakerBridge Media of Friends General Conference, 2013. Pp. 247-266.
“God, Christ, and the Light.” In the Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. 158-171.
Pink Dandelion and Stephen W. Angell, “Introduction.” In the Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. 1-9.
“Gospel Family-Order: George Fox’s Ministry in Barbados and the Development of a Quaker Testimony of Family.” In Keeping Us Honest, Stirring the Pot: A Festschrift in Honor of Larry Ingle, ed. by Chuck Fager and Becky Ingle. Fayetteville, NC: Kimo Press, 2011. Pp. 17-34.
“The Early Period.” In Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights, ed. by Harold D. Weaver, Jr., Paul Kriese, and Stephen W. Angell. Philadelphia, PA: Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2011. Pp. 1-43.
“Howard Thurman (1899-1981).” In Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights, ed. by Harold D. Weaver, Jr., Paul Kriese, and Stephen W. Angell. Philadelphia, PA: Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2011. Pp. 63-95.
“Fauset and his Black Gods: Intersections with the Herskovits-Frazier Debate.” In The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions, ed. by Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. 226-248.
“Quaker Women in Kenya and Human Rights Issues.” In Freedom’s Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa, ed. by R. Drew Smith. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006. Pp. 111-130.
“The Light of Life” (A Quaker Reading of the Gospel of John). In The Quaker Bible Reader, ed. by Paul Buckley and Stephen W. Angell. Richmond, IN: ESR Press, 2006. Pp. 160-187.
“Henry McNeal Turner: Radical? Conservative? Or Independent?” In Black Conservatives, ed. by Peter Eisenstadt. New York: Garland Press, 1999. Pp. 25-50.
“Isaac (Counts) Cook, James Porter, and Henry McNeal Turner: Black Methodist Preachers in the South Carolina Upcounty, 1840-1866.” In Ain’t Gonna Lay My ‘Ligion Down: African American Roots in Southern Religion, ed. by Alonzo Johnson and Paul Jersild. Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. 87-109.
“The Controversy over Women’s Ministry in the A.M.E. Church during the 1880s: The Case of Sarah Ann Hughes.” In This Far By Faith: Readings in African-American Women’s Religious Biography, ed. by Judith Weisenfeld and Richard Newman. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 94-109.
“William Penn, Moderate Puritan.” In The Lamb’s War: Quaker Essays to Honor Hugh Barbour, ed. by Michael Birkel and John Newman. Richmond, IN: Earlham College Press, 1992. Pp. 76-90.
(with Hugh Barbour) “An Address to Protestants upon the Present Conjuncture.” (Selections from a William Penn text on religious toleration, with introduction and annotations.) In Hugh S. Barbour, ed., William Penn and Religious Ethics: The Emergence of Liberal Quakerism (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991), II, 447-478.
“The Rise of Elders within Quakerism.” In Friends Consultation on Eldering. Ed. by Wilmer Cooper and Eldon Harzman. Richmond, IN: Earlham School of Religion and Quaker Hill Conference Center, 1982. Pp. 1-5. http://ldr.esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/consultation-on-eldering.pdf
“Friends History of Releasing Friends for Ministry.” In Consultation of Friends on Ministry: Discerning, Nurturing, Recording, and Releasing. Ed. by Wilmer Cooper and Eldon Harzman. Richmond, IN: Earlham School of Religion and Quaker Hill Conference Center, 1981. Pp. 41-58. http://ldr.esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/consultation-on-ministry.pdf
Journal Articles
“Another Quaker Schism? Wilmington Yearly Meeting and Same-Gender Marriage Issues,” Quaker Theology 30/31 (Winter-Spring 2017 and Summer-Fall 2017): 27-47. http://quakertheology.org/QT-30-31-Wilmington%20YM.html
“Benjamin Lay: William Penn’s Heir?” Quaker Theology 30/31 (Winter-Spring 2017 and Summer-Fall 2017): 226-235. http://quakertheology.org/QT-30-31-Angell-Review-Redicker.html
Ben Pink Dandelion and Stephen W. Angell, “Editorial,” Quaker Studies 22:2 (Dec. 2017): 137-144. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/quaker/22/2
“Roundtable Review: Hardly Quakerism? Religious Identity and H. Larry Ingle’s Nixon’s First Cover-Up,” Quaker Studies 21/2 (2016): 270-273. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/quaker.2016.21.2.10
“Seeking Freedom: Quakers Developed a Strong Anti-Slavery Witness over Time,” Christian History 117 (2016): 24-28. https://www.christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/issue/quakers/
“Unforgettable Witness for Freedom,” Christian History 117 (2016): 27. https://www.christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/issue/quakers/
“Of Cats and Muslims: Reflections on David Johns’ Quakering Theology,” Quaker Religious Thought 125 (October 2015): 5-11. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol125/iss1/2/
“George Fox University and West Hills Friends: Controversy and Conflict in Northwest Yearly Meeting,” Quaker Theology 27 (Summer-Fall 2015): 9-53. http://quakertheology.org/QT-27.html#controversy-conflict
“’The Shadows of the Evening Stretched Out’: Richard Robinson and the Shaping of African Methodist Identity, 1823-1862,” Journal of Africana Religions, 3:3 (2015): 227-250.
“Richard Farnworth, Samuel Fisher, and the Authority of Scripture among Early Quakers (George Richardson Lecture 2014),” Quaker Studies 19:2 (March 2015): 207-228. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/quaker.19.2.207
“An Early Version of George Fox’s ‘Letter to the Governor of Barbados’”, Quaker Studies 19:2 (March 2015): 277-294. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/quaker.19.2.277
Translator and Introduction Author, “Love and peace in Cuba today, from the perspective of a Quaker” [El amor y la paz en Cuba hoy desde la perspectiva de un Cuáquero], by Julio Antonio Cuesta Martínez. Quaker Theology 25 13:2 (Summer-Fall 2014): 28-45. http://quaker.org/quest/QT25-Martinez-Cuba-Quaker.html
“Separation Accomplished: New Beginnings for a New Association of Friends and a ‘Reconfigured’ Indiana Yearly Meeting,” Quaker Theology 24 13:1 (Winter-Spring 2014): 60-83. http://quaker.org/quest/Angell-Separation-Accomplished-Indiana-Yearly-Meeting.html
“Teaching Quakerism in Cuba,” ESR Reports 14:2 (Spring 2013): 6-7. http://esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/esrreports_spring2013.pdf
“FUM News: The Cuban Quaker Institute for Peace,” Quaker Life (March-April 2013): 17.
“The ‘Reconfiguration’ of Indiana Yearly Meeting Enters an Intense Organizational Phase,” Quaker Theology 22 12:1 (Winter-Spring 2013): 9-17. http://quaker.org/quest/QT-22-Indiana-YM-Update-and-Documents.html
“New Light on Elias Hicks,” Quaker Religious Thought 119 (October 2012): 7-13. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol119/iss1/3/
“The Proposed Split of Indiana Yearly Meeting: What Its Monthly Meetings Say,” Quaker Theology 21 11:2 (Fall 2012): 5-45. www.quaker.org/quest/QT-21-for-web.pdf
Stephen W. Angell and Leigh Eason, “Gay, Black, and Quaker: History Catches Up with Bayard Rustin,” Religion Dispatches, June 21, 2012 http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/5840/gay%2C_black%2C_and_quaker%3A_history_catches_up_with_bayard_rustin/
“Timeline of Indiana Yearly Meeting Schism,” Friends Journal 58:6 (June/July 2012): 13, 48.
“William Penn’s Debts to John Owen and Moses Amyraut on Questions of Truth, Grace, and Religious Toleration,” Quaker Studies 16:2 (March 2012):157-173. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol16/iss2/2/
“The Impending Split in Indiana Yearly Meeting,” Quaker Theology 20 11:1 (Winter-Spring 2012): 11-40. http://quaker.org/quest/QT-20-Final-for-Web.pdf
“Traveling in Ministry to Cuba,” ESR Reports 13:1 (Fall, 2011): 1-5. http://esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/esrreports_fall2011.pdf
“Lopping Off a Limb? Indiana Yearly Meeting’s Troubled Relationship with West Richmond Monthly Meeting,” Quaker Theology 19 10:2 (Spring-Summer 2011): 1-23. http://quaker.org/quest/QT-19.pdf
“Current Conflicts in Two Midwestern Friends Meetings,” Quaker Theology 18 10:1 (Fall-Winter 2010-2011): 1-33. http://quaker.org/quest/QT-18-Online.pd
“Whither Quaker Theology in the Twenty-First Century? A Response to David Johns and Paul Anderson,” Quaker Religious Thought 114 (Apr. 2010): 42-52. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol114/iss1/5/
“Whither Islam in Iran?” ESR Reports 11:2 (Spring, 2010): 5-6. http://esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/esrreports_spring2010.pdf
“Howard Thurman and Quakers,” Quaker Theology 16 9:1 (Fall-Winter 2009): 28-54. http://www.quaker.org/quest/issue16-angell01.htm
“Opening the Scriptures, Then and Now,” Quaker Theology 14 8:1 (Summer-Fall 2007-2008): 1-18. http://www.quaker.org/quest/issue14-angell-01.htm
“Early Friends’ Views of the Sacraments,” Quaker Religious Thought, 109 (December 2007): 8-15. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol109/iss1/2/
“E Pluribus Unum? Quaker Approaches to Plurality and Unity (1682-1764),” Quaker Religious Thought 106/107 (November 2006): 55-67. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol106/iss1/6/
“Universalising and Spiritualising the Gospel: How Early Quakers Interpreted the Epistle to the Colossians,” Quaker Studies 11:1 (2006): 34-58. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol11/iss1/3/
“Bunji and Toshi Kida and Friends’ Missions to the Japanese in California,” Quaker History 95:1(Spring 2006): 1-25.
“Interactions of Mission-Oriented Quakers with Buddhists, 1885-1935,” Quaker History 93:2 (Fall 2004): 1-27.
“The Catechisms of George Fox,” Quaker Theology 9 (Fall-Winter 2003): 90-107. http://www.quaker.org/quest/issue-9-angell-01.htm
Patrick Nugent, Stephen W. Angell, and David Johns, “The Church: Called, Gathered, and Faithful, in response to The Nature and Purpose of the Church: A Stage on the Way to a Common Statement, Faith and Order Commission, World Council of Churches,” Quaker Theology 9 (Fall-Winter 2003): 132-145. http://quakertheology.org/issue-9-FUM-01.htm
“’Learn of the Heathen:’ Quakers and Indians in Southern New England, 1656-1676,” Quaker History 92:1 (Spring, 2003): 1-21.
“Friends for 350 More Years?” ESR Reports (Fall 2002): 1, 4-5. http://esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/esr_reportfall02.pdf
“A Black Minister Befriends ‘the Unquestioned Father of Civil Rights:’ Henry McNeal Turner, Charles Sumner and the African-American Quest for Freedom,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 85:1 (Spring 2001): 27-58.
“Rufus Jones and the Laymen’s Foreign Mission Inquiry: How a Quaker Helped to Shape Modern Ecumenism,” Quaker Theology 2:2 (Autumn 2000): 167-209. http://quaker.org/quest/issue3-6.html.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Friends, Society of: Literature.” In Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Vol. 9. Berlin and Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2014.
“Philip Gulley.” In Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers), 2nd ed. Ed. by Margery Post Abbott et al. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011.
“Methodists: African American,” Encyclopedia of Religion in America. Ed. by Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010. III, 1340-1346.
“African Americans in the Episcopal Church” and “African Methodist Episcopal Church,” African American Religious Cultures. Ed. by Anthony Pinn. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009. I, 25-38, 58-66.
“Religion and Race” and “African-American Religion,” The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 2006.
“Protestantism in the Americas.” In Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2d ed. Ed. by Colin A. Palmer. Detroit: Thomson-Gale, 2006. IV, 1843-1849.
“Friends General Conference” in The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, ed. by Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge, 2004. II, 778.
“Friends World Committee for Consultation” in The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, ed. by Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge, 2004. II, 778.
“Henry McNeal Turner,” in The New Georgia Encyclopedia (on-line, 2002). http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-632
“Jordan Early,” “Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton,” and “Henry McNeal Turner.” In American National Biography. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.
“African-American Religion.” In The African-American Almanac, 8th ed. 1999; 6th ed. 1994.
“Henry McNeal Turner.” In The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996.
“Anthony Benezet,” “Henry Evans,” “Stephen Grellet,” “Joseph John Gurney,” and “David Sands.” In The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, 1730-1860. London: Blackwell Press, 1996.
“Henry McNeal Turner,” “Joseph John Gurney,” “Henry Highland Garnet,” “George Alexander McGuire,” “Marshall Keeble,” “Charles M. (Sweet Daddy) Grace,” and “William Henry Miles.” In the Dictionary of Christianity in America. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1990.
Forewords
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Nicole von Germeten, Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Julius H. Bailey, Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Mary Ann Clark, Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santeria Ritual Practices and Their Gender Implication. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Yolanda Pierce, Hell without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Noel Leo Erskine, From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Christine Ayorinde, Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Canter Brown, Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers, ‘For a Great and Grand Purpose:’ The Beginnings of the A.M.E.Z. Church in Florida, 1864-1905. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Miguel A. De la Torre, The Quest for the Cuban Christ: A Historical Search. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Lewis V. Baldwin, and Amiri YaSin Al-Hadid, Between the Cross and the Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Larry Rivers and Canter Brown, Jr., ‘Laborers in the vineyard of the Lord:’ The Beginnings of the A.M.E. Church in Florida, 1865-1895. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Book Reviews
Review of Ruben Van Luijk, Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 86:2 (June 2018): 577-580.
Review of Judith Weisenfeld, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, in American Historical Review 123:1 (Feb. 2018): 247-248.
Review of Anne M. Blankenship, Christianity, Social Justice, and the Japanese American Incarceration in World War II, in Quaker Studies 22:2 (Dec. 2017): 249-251. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/quaker/22/2
Review of Paul Harvey, Christianity and Race in the American South, in Reading Religion, Oct. 18, 2017, http://readingreligion.org/books/christianity-and-race-american-south
Stephen Angell and Ben Pink Dandelion, “Response from the Editors” (to reviews of Early Quakers and their Theological Thought, 1647-1723) in Quaker Religious Thought 128 (Mar. 2017): 33-37.
Review of Matthew Harper, The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation, in Reading Religion, Feb. 3, 2017, http://readingreligion.org/books/end-days
Review of Louis Venters, No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina’s Bahai Community, in American Historical Review 121:4 (Oct. 2016): 1301-2.
Review of Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie, in Church History 85:1 (March 2016): 205-207.
Review of David L. Crosby, The Complete Antislavery Writings of Anthony Benezet, in Quaker History (Spring 2015): 50-51.
Review of Chuck Fager, Angels of Progress: A Documentary History of the Progressive Friends: Radical Quakers in a Turbulent America, in Quaker Theology 25 13:2 (Summer-Fall 2014): 77-84. http://quakertheology.org/QT25-Angell-Fager.html
Review of Patricia Appelbaum, Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam Era, in Quaker Studies 18:2 (Spring 2014): 260-262. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol18/iss2/10/
Review of Christopher Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, in Quaker Studies 18:2 (Spring 2014): 262-264. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol18/iss2/11/
Review of Allan W. Austin, Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 in Quaker History 102:3 (Fall 2013): 52-54.
Review of A. Glenn Crothers, Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth: The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865, in the Journal of Southern Religion 15 (2013). http://jsr.fsu.edu/issues/vol15/angell.html
Review of Julius H. Bailey, Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the AME Church, in Journal of American History 99:4 (March 2013): 1265-1266.
Review of Dennis C. Dickerson, African American Preachers and Politics: the Careys of Chicago, in Church History 81:2 (Jun. 2012): 499-501.
Review of Claus Bernet, Rufus Jones (1863-1848): Life and Bibliography of an American Scholar, Writer, and Social Activist, in Quaker Studies 16:2 (March 2012): 224-226. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol16/iss2/11/
Review of Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye, Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African-Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice, in Quaker Studies 16:2 (March 2012): 241-243. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol16/iss2/20/
Review of Toni P. Anderson, “Tell Them We Are Singing For Jesus:” The Original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian Reconstruction, 1871-1878, in Journal of American History 97:4 (March 2011): 1131-2.
Review of Thomas C. Kennedy, A History of Southland College: The Society of Friends and Black Education in Arkansas, in Quaker Theology 10:1 (Winter-Fall 2010-2011): 79-87. http://quakertheology.org/QT-18-Online.pdf
Review of Margery Post Abbott, To Be Broken and Tender: A Quaker Theology for Today, in Quaker Theology 9:2 (Spring-Summer 2010): 53-54. http://quakertheology.org/Abbott-Review-QT-17.html
Review of Adele Oltman, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow, in American Historical Review 115:4 (Dec. 2009): 1484-1485.
Review of Pink Dandelion, An Introduction to Quakerism, in The Journal of Religion (Jan. 2009): 114-116.
Review of Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, eds., Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, in Journal of American History 95:2 (Sept. 2008): 515-516.
Review of R. Clifford Jones, James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists, in American Historical Review 113:3 (June 2008): 853.
Review of J. Gordon Melton, A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism, in Church History 77:1 (Mar. 2008): 187-189.
“Holiness, Perfection, and Orthodoxy: A Review of Carole Dale Spencer, Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism,” in Quaker Religious Thought 110 (Dec. 2007): 18-25. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol110/iss1/3/
Review of Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner and Margaret Hope Bacon, Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880 in Quaker History 96:1 (Spring 2007): 53-57.
Review of James B. Bennett, Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans in The Journal of Southern History 72:4 (Nov. 2006): 966-7.
Review of Henry Mitchell, Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years in Church History 74:4 (Dec. 2005): 879-80.
Review of Graham Russell Hodges, ed., Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73:2 (June 2005): 536-9.
Review of Pink Dandelion, The Creation of Quaker Theory: Insider Perspectives in Quaker Studies 10:1 (2005): 114-6. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol10/iss1/10/
Review of Margery Post Abbott, Mary Ellen Chijioke, Pink Dandelion, and John W. Oliver, Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) in Quaker History 94:1 (Spring 2005): 57-9.
Review of R. Drew Smith, New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America in Church History 73:4 (Dec. 2004): 891-2.
Review of Peter J. Ling, Martin Luther King, Jr., in Journal of Southern Religion 7 (2004). (http://jsr.fsu.edu/Volume7/Ling.htm)
Review of Rosemary Moore, The Light in their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666, in Quaker Religious Thought, Nos. 99 & 100 (Apr. 2003): 37-43. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol99/iss1/6/
Review of Doug Gwyn, Seekers Found: Atonement in Early Quaker Experience, in Quaker History 91 (Fall, 2002): 38-39.
Review of Jualynne Dodson, Engendering Church: Women, Power, and the A.M.E. Church. Published in The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Spring, 2002. http://www.princeton.edu/~jweisenf/northstar/volume5/dodson.html
Review of Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism, Edited by Yvonne Chireau and Nathaniel Deutsch, in The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History, Spring 2001. http://www.princeton.edu/~jweisenf/northstar/volume4/chireau_deutsch.html
Review of Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916, by Lawrence S. Little, in Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, April 2001.
Review of Black Judas: William Thomas and “The American Negro”, by John David Smith, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, Spring 2000. Pp. 170-172.
Review of Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration, by Milton Sernett, in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, September 1999. Pp. 709-711.
Editorial Duties
Editor-in-Chief, Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies. We are under contract to produce four volumes a year for the years 2018 to 2022, with a possibility of extending the contract beyond 2022.
Associate Editor, Quaker Studies, Birmingham, U.K., 2011-present; guest co-editor for Vol. 22, Issue 2, Nov. 2017. An open access journal, it is available at http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/quaker
Associate Editor, Quaker Theology: A Progressive Journal and Forum for Discussion and Study, 2007-present. It is both a print and on-line journal, accessible at www.quakertheology.org/
Member of International Advisory Board, Journal of Africana Studies. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Will begin publication in 2013.
Co-editor, History of African-American Religions Series, sponsored by the University Press of Florida. Books published include:
Anthony Pinn, The African American Religious Experience in America. (2008)
Michael Lackey, African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Sociocultural Dynamics of Faith (2007)
Nicole von Germeten, Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans. (2006)
Julius H. Bailey, Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. (2005)
Mary Ann Clark, Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santeria Ritual Practices and Their Gender Implication. (2005)
Yolanda Pierce, Hell without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative. (2005)
Noel Leo Erskine, From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology. (2005)
Christine Ayorinde, Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity. (2004)
Canter Brown, Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers. ‘For a Great and Grand Purpose:’ The Beginnings of the A.M.E.Z. Church in Florida, 1864-1905. (2004)
Lewis V. Baldwin and Amiri YaSin Al-Hadid, Between the Cross and the Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin. (2002)
Miguel de La Torre. The Quest for a Cultural Cuban Christ: A Historical Search. (2002)
Larry Rivers and Canter Brown, Jr., ‘Laborers in the vineyard of the Lord:’ The Beginnings of the A.M.E. Church in Florida, 1865-1895. (2001)
Television Documentaries
In October 1999, I served as a consultant for Blackside Productions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the preparation of “This Far by Faith,” a six-part documentary series on African-American religion. Subsequently, I was an academic advisor and also interviewed for the second segment, “God Is a Negro,” focusing on African American religion during Reconstruction. Completed by the Faith Project, Inc., and aired on Public Broadcasting stations nationwide, June 2003.
Recent Presentations
“Quaker Abolitionists: Lucretia Mott and Levi Coffin.” Workshop presented at the Ben Lomond Center, Ben Lomond, California. January, 2018.
“Reading Helen Morgan Brooks and Howard Thurman in the Age of Ferguson.” Lecture and Workshop for Quaker Heritage Days, Berkeley Friends Church, February 21, 2015.
“Richard Farnworth, Samuel Fisher, and the Authority of Scripture among Early Friends,” George Richardson Lecture at the Quaker Studies Research Association, Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Selly Oak, UK, October, 2014. https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/publications.php?action=publication&id=101
“A. Neave Brayshaw and the Re-Invigoration of the Quaker Peace Testimony during World War I,” (lecture) Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center at Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH, July, 2014.
“Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights,” (workshop) Pendle Hill, Wallingford, PA, June, 2012.
“The Meaning of Membership in the Religious Society of Friends,” (workshop) Pittsburgh Monthly Meeting, Apr. 2012.
“New Light on Elias Hicks,” (review) Quaker Theological Discussion Group, Nov. 2011.
“William Penn’s Debts to John Owen and Moses Amyraut on Questions of Truth, Grace, and Religious Toleration,” (lecture) Conference on William Penn (1644-1718): from Saumur’s Protestant Academy to Pennsylvania, Saumur, France, May, 2011.
“The True Nature of Quaker Community;” “The Light in the Understanding and Experience of Friends, with a focus on George Fox, J. J. Gurney, and Rufus Jones;” “Quakers and Holiness,” Lectures given to Cuba Yearly Meeting, Feb. 2011.
“The Light in the Understanding and Experience of Friends,” (lecture) Earlham School of Religion 50th Anniversary Celebration, Wilmington, Ohio, July, 2010
“The Foundations of Liberal Quakerism,” workshop offered at Friends General Conference Gathering, Bowling Green, Ohio, 2010; Blacksburg, Virginia, 2009.
“The Foundations of Liberal Quakerism,” Walton Lecture delivered to Southeastern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, March 2008.
“Early Friends’ Views of the Sacraments,” paper read at the meeting of the Quaker Theological Discussion Group, San Diego, California, November 2007.
“Mysticism into Action: Henry Hodgkin and Rufus Jones,” workshop offered at the Friends General Conference Gathering, River Falls, Wisconsin, July 2007.
Respondent for Panel on “Friends and Race” at the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists, Greensboro, N.C., June 2006.
“Rufus Jones and Modern Quakerism,” Workshop offered at the Friends General Conference Gathering in Tacoma, Washington, July 2006; and Blacksburg, Virginia, July 2005.
“Rethinking Rufus Jones for the Twenty-First Century.” Weeklong Course offered at Pendle Hill, a Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, Jan. 16 – 21, 2005.
“Puritan or Spiritualist Bible Interpretation? Comparing Seventeenth-Century Quaker Exegesis of Col. 1:23-28 and Col. 2:14-17 with that of their Protestant Contemporaries and Forebears,” Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists, Newberg, Oregon, June 2004.
“Bunji and Toshi Kida and Friends’ Missions to the Japanese in California,” Presented to Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, November, 2003.
Workshop presented at Michigan Friends Center, “Early Quaker Women,” November, 2002.
Workshop presented at Southeastern Yearly Meeting “The Light in the Experience and Understanding of Early Friends,”April, 2003.
Workshop presented at Friends General Conference, “Faith and Practice among Friends,” Johnstown, Pennsylvania, July 2003; Normal, Illinois, July, 2002.
“Radical Vision and Historical Development.” [A Response to Barry Callen’s Radical Christianity: The Believers’ Church Tradition in Christianity’s History and Future (Nappanee, Ind.: Evangel Pub. House, 1999.] Presented at the ESR Pastor’s Conference, Oct. 1, 2001.
Honors
Lauréat du concours: L'influence de l'Académie de Saumur sur les idées politiques de William Penn, Saumur, France, May 20, 2011.
Fellow, NEH Seminar, “Zen Buddhist Philosophy,” Ohio State University, Summer, 1997.
Participant, NEH Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa, “Beyond Texts: Religion and Material Culture,” Summer, 1993.
Fellow, NEH Seminar, University of Mississippi, “Religious Traditions and the History of the South,” Summer, 1992.
Fellow, NEH Seminar, Northwestern University, “The Interactions of Peoples and Cultures in North America,” Summer, 1989.
Professional Memberships
American Academy of Religion
Offices Held:
National Co-Chair, Afro-American Religious History Group, 1997-2000
Steering Committee Member, Afro-American Religious History Group.
Chair, African-American Religion, Southeast Region, 1994-1997.
Steering Committee Member, Quaker Studies Group, 2013-present.
Member, Jury for Best Academic Book of Religion by First-Time Author, 2017-present
Friends Historical Association
Quaker Theological Discussion Group
Member, Editorial Advisory Committee
Quaker Studies Research Association
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Stephen W. Angell
Earlham School of Religion
228 College Avenue
Richmond, Indiana 47374-4095
(765) 983-1496 (office)
(765) 983-1688 (fax)
angelst@earlham.edu (e-mail)
Current Position
Geraldine C. Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies,
Earlham School of Religion
Education
May, 1988 Ph.D., Religion (History of Christianity), Vanderbilt University.
May, 1987 M.A., Religion, Vanderbilt University.
June, 1982 M.A., Religion (with honors), Earlham School of Religion.
May, 1974 B.A., Mathematics (cum laude), Boston University.
Employment
2001-Present Geraldine C. Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies, Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Indiana.
1990-2001 Professor of Religion, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Publications
Books
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 2018.
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds. Quakers in Business and Industry. Quakers and the Disciplines, Vol. 4. Friends Association of Higher Education Press and Full Media Services, 2017.
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds. Early Quakers and their Theological Thought, 1647-1723. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds. Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Harold D. Weaver, Jr., Paul Kriese, and Stephen W. Angell, eds. Black Fire: African-American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights. Philadelphia, PA: Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2011.
Paul Buckley and Stephen W. Angell, eds. The Quaker Bible Reader. Richmond, IN: Earlham School of Religion Press, 2006.
Stephen W. Angell and Anthony B. Pinn, eds. Social Protest Thought in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1862-1939. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
Stephen Ward Angell. Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
Lectures and Pamphlets
The Foundations of Liberal Quakerism. 45th Annual Walton Lecture. Melbourne Beach, FL: Southeastern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 2008.
A Quaker in Iran. Quaker Universalist Fellowship Pamphlet. 2010.
Book Chapters
Stephen W. Angell and John Connell, “Quakers in North America.” In The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 161-178.
Stephen W. Angell and Clare Brown, “Quakers in Education.” In The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 128-146.
Pink Dandelion and Stephen W. Angell, “Introduction.” In The Cambridge Companion to Quakerism, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 1-10.
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, “Introduction.” In C. Wess Daniels, Robynne Rogers Healey, and Jon R. Kershner, eds., Quaker Studies, an Overview: The State of the Field. In Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies 1.1, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Brill, 2018. Pp. 3-12.
“Early Quaker Women and the Testimony of the Family, 1652-1767.” In Michele Lise Tarter and Catie Gill, eds., New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 50-68.
“The Dog That Did Not Bark: Yearly Meeting Reunifications in North America, The Case of Canada’s Yearly Meetings.” In Chuck Fager, ed., An Early Assessment: U.S. Quakerism in the 20th Century. Papers from the Quaker History Roundtable, June 8-11, 2017. Durham, NC: Kimo Press, 2017. Pp. 59-81.
Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, “Introduction.” In Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Quakers, Business, and Industry, Quakers and the Disciplines, Vol. 4. Friends Association for Higher Education Press, 2017. Pp. 1-6.
“Colonizer William Penn and Engineer Herbert Hoover: How their Businesses Affected their Philanthropy and Statesmanship.” In Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Quakers, Business, and Industry, Quakers and the Disciplines, Vol. 4. Friends Association for Higher Education Press, 2017. Pp. 190-212.
Pink Dandelion and Stephen W. Angell, “Introduction.” In Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Early Quakers and their Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 1-12.
Michael Birkel and Stephen W. Angell, “The Witness of Richard Farnworth: Prophet of Light, Apostle of Church Order.” In Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Early Quakers and their Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 83-101.
“Renegade Oxonian: Samuel Fisher’s Importance in Formulating a Quaker Understanding of Scripture.” In Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion, eds., Early Quakers and their Theology. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 137-154.
“Contemporary Quaker Truth as Reflected in Seventeenth-Century Quaker Doctrinal Writing.” In Jeffrey Dudiak, ed., Befriending Truth: Quaker Perspectives, Quakers and the Disciplines 2 (Longmeadow, MA: Friends Association for Higher Education, 2015), pp. 69-81.
“Quaker Lobbying on Behalf of the New START Treaty in 2010: A Window into the World of the Friends Committee on National Legislation.” In Stanley D. Brunn, ed., The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices, and Politics. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2015. Chapter 185, pp. 3541-3558.
“Howard Brinton in Theological Context.” In Howard and Anna Brinton: Re-inventors of Quakerism in the Twentieth Century, by Anthony Manousos. Philadelphia, PA: QuakerBridge Media of Friends General Conference, 2013. Pp. 247-266.
“God, Christ, and the Light.” In the Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. 158-171.
Pink Dandelion and Stephen W. Angell, “Introduction.” In the Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, ed. by Stephen W. Angell and Pink Dandelion. Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 2013. Pp. 1-9.
“Gospel Family-Order: George Fox’s Ministry in Barbados and the Development of a Quaker Testimony of Family.” In Keeping Us Honest, Stirring the Pot: A Festschrift in Honor of Larry Ingle, ed. by Chuck Fager and Becky Ingle. Fayetteville, NC: Kimo Press, 2011. Pp. 17-34.
“The Early Period.” In Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights, ed. by Harold D. Weaver, Jr., Paul Kriese, and Stephen W. Angell. Philadelphia, PA: Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2011. Pp. 1-43.
“Howard Thurman (1899-1981).” In Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights, ed. by Harold D. Weaver, Jr., Paul Kriese, and Stephen W. Angell. Philadelphia, PA: Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2011. Pp. 63-95.
“Fauset and his Black Gods: Intersections with the Herskovits-Frazier Debate.” In The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions, ed. by Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. 226-248.
“Quaker Women in Kenya and Human Rights Issues.” In Freedom’s Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa, ed. by R. Drew Smith. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006. Pp. 111-130.
“The Light of Life” (A Quaker Reading of the Gospel of John). In The Quaker Bible Reader, ed. by Paul Buckley and Stephen W. Angell. Richmond, IN: ESR Press, 2006. Pp. 160-187.
“Henry McNeal Turner: Radical? Conservative? Or Independent?” In Black Conservatives, ed. by Peter Eisenstadt. New York: Garland Press, 1999. Pp. 25-50.
“Isaac (Counts) Cook, James Porter, and Henry McNeal Turner: Black Methodist Preachers in the South Carolina Upcounty, 1840-1866.” In Ain’t Gonna Lay My ‘Ligion Down: African American Roots in Southern Religion, ed. by Alonzo Johnson and Paul Jersild. Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1996. Pp. 87-109.
“The Controversy over Women’s Ministry in the A.M.E. Church during the 1880s: The Case of Sarah Ann Hughes.” In This Far By Faith: Readings in African-American Women’s Religious Biography, ed. by Judith Weisenfeld and Richard Newman. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 94-109.
“William Penn, Moderate Puritan.” In The Lamb’s War: Quaker Essays to Honor Hugh Barbour, ed. by Michael Birkel and John Newman. Richmond, IN: Earlham College Press, 1992. Pp. 76-90.
(with Hugh Barbour) “An Address to Protestants upon the Present Conjuncture.” (Selections from a William Penn text on religious toleration, with introduction and annotations.) In Hugh S. Barbour, ed., William Penn and Religious Ethics: The Emergence of Liberal Quakerism (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991), II, 447-478.
“The Rise of Elders within Quakerism.” In Friends Consultation on Eldering. Ed. by Wilmer Cooper and Eldon Harzman. Richmond, IN: Earlham School of Religion and Quaker Hill Conference Center, 1982. Pp. 1-5. http://ldr.esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/consultation-on-eldering.pdf
“Friends History of Releasing Friends for Ministry.” In Consultation of Friends on Ministry: Discerning, Nurturing, Recording, and Releasing. Ed. by Wilmer Cooper and Eldon Harzman. Richmond, IN: Earlham School of Religion and Quaker Hill Conference Center, 1981. Pp. 41-58. http://ldr.esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/consultation-on-ministry.pdf
Journal Articles
“Another Quaker Schism? Wilmington Yearly Meeting and Same-Gender Marriage Issues,” Quaker Theology 30/31 (Winter-Spring 2017 and Summer-Fall 2017): 27-47. http://quakertheology.org/QT-30-31-Wilmington%20YM.html
“Benjamin Lay: William Penn’s Heir?” Quaker Theology 30/31 (Winter-Spring 2017 and Summer-Fall 2017): 226-235. http://quakertheology.org/QT-30-31-Angell-Review-Redicker.html
Ben Pink Dandelion and Stephen W. Angell, “Editorial,” Quaker Studies 22:2 (Dec. 2017): 137-144. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/quaker/22/2
“Roundtable Review: Hardly Quakerism? Religious Identity and H. Larry Ingle’s Nixon’s First Cover-Up,” Quaker Studies 21/2 (2016): 270-273. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/quaker.2016.21.2.10
“Seeking Freedom: Quakers Developed a Strong Anti-Slavery Witness over Time,” Christian History 117 (2016): 24-28. https://www.christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/issue/quakers/
“Unforgettable Witness for Freedom,” Christian History 117 (2016): 27. https://www.christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/issue/quakers/
“Of Cats and Muslims: Reflections on David Johns’ Quakering Theology,” Quaker Religious Thought 125 (October 2015): 5-11. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol125/iss1/2/
“George Fox University and West Hills Friends: Controversy and Conflict in Northwest Yearly Meeting,” Quaker Theology 27 (Summer-Fall 2015): 9-53. http://quakertheology.org/QT-27.html#controversy-conflict
“’The Shadows of the Evening Stretched Out’: Richard Robinson and the Shaping of African Methodist Identity, 1823-1862,” Journal of Africana Religions, 3:3 (2015): 227-250.
“Richard Farnworth, Samuel Fisher, and the Authority of Scripture among Early Quakers (George Richardson Lecture 2014),” Quaker Studies 19:2 (March 2015): 207-228. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/quaker.19.2.207
“An Early Version of George Fox’s ‘Letter to the Governor of Barbados’”, Quaker Studies 19:2 (March 2015): 277-294. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/quaker.19.2.277
Translator and Introduction Author, “Love and peace in Cuba today, from the perspective of a Quaker” [El amor y la paz en Cuba hoy desde la perspectiva de un Cuáquero], by Julio Antonio Cuesta Martínez. Quaker Theology 25 13:2 (Summer-Fall 2014): 28-45. http://quaker.org/quest/QT25-Martinez-Cuba-Quaker.html
“Separation Accomplished: New Beginnings for a New Association of Friends and a ‘Reconfigured’ Indiana Yearly Meeting,” Quaker Theology 24 13:1 (Winter-Spring 2014): 60-83. http://quaker.org/quest/Angell-Separation-Accomplished-Indiana-Yearly-Meeting.html
“Teaching Quakerism in Cuba,” ESR Reports 14:2 (Spring 2013): 6-7. http://esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/esrreports_spring2013.pdf
“FUM News: The Cuban Quaker Institute for Peace,” Quaker Life (March-April 2013): 17.
“The ‘Reconfiguration’ of Indiana Yearly Meeting Enters an Intense Organizational Phase,” Quaker Theology 22 12:1 (Winter-Spring 2013): 9-17. http://quaker.org/quest/QT-22-Indiana-YM-Update-and-Documents.html
“New Light on Elias Hicks,” Quaker Religious Thought 119 (October 2012): 7-13. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol119/iss1/3/
“The Proposed Split of Indiana Yearly Meeting: What Its Monthly Meetings Say,” Quaker Theology 21 11:2 (Fall 2012): 5-45. www.quaker.org/quest/QT-21-for-web.pdf
Stephen W. Angell and Leigh Eason, “Gay, Black, and Quaker: History Catches Up with Bayard Rustin,” Religion Dispatches, June 21, 2012 http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/5840/gay%2C_black%2C_and_quaker%3A_history_catches_up_with_bayard_rustin/
“Timeline of Indiana Yearly Meeting Schism,” Friends Journal 58:6 (June/July 2012): 13, 48.
“William Penn’s Debts to John Owen and Moses Amyraut on Questions of Truth, Grace, and Religious Toleration,” Quaker Studies 16:2 (March 2012):157-173. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol16/iss2/2/
“The Impending Split in Indiana Yearly Meeting,” Quaker Theology 20 11:1 (Winter-Spring 2012): 11-40. http://quaker.org/quest/QT-20-Final-for-Web.pdf
“Traveling in Ministry to Cuba,” ESR Reports 13:1 (Fall, 2011): 1-5. http://esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/esrreports_fall2011.pdf
“Lopping Off a Limb? Indiana Yearly Meeting’s Troubled Relationship with West Richmond Monthly Meeting,” Quaker Theology 19 10:2 (Spring-Summer 2011): 1-23. http://quaker.org/quest/QT-19.pdf
“Current Conflicts in Two Midwestern Friends Meetings,” Quaker Theology 18 10:1 (Fall-Winter 2010-2011): 1-33. http://quaker.org/quest/QT-18-Online.pd
“Whither Quaker Theology in the Twenty-First Century? A Response to David Johns and Paul Anderson,” Quaker Religious Thought 114 (Apr. 2010): 42-52. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol114/iss1/5/
“Whither Islam in Iran?” ESR Reports 11:2 (Spring, 2010): 5-6. http://esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/esrreports_spring2010.pdf
“Howard Thurman and Quakers,” Quaker Theology 16 9:1 (Fall-Winter 2009): 28-54. http://www.quaker.org/quest/issue16-angell01.htm
“Opening the Scriptures, Then and Now,” Quaker Theology 14 8:1 (Summer-Fall 2007-2008): 1-18. http://www.quaker.org/quest/issue14-angell-01.htm
“Early Friends’ Views of the Sacraments,” Quaker Religious Thought, 109 (December 2007): 8-15. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol109/iss1/2/
“E Pluribus Unum? Quaker Approaches to Plurality and Unity (1682-1764),” Quaker Religious Thought 106/107 (November 2006): 55-67. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol106/iss1/6/
“Universalising and Spiritualising the Gospel: How Early Quakers Interpreted the Epistle to the Colossians,” Quaker Studies 11:1 (2006): 34-58. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol11/iss1/3/
“Bunji and Toshi Kida and Friends’ Missions to the Japanese in California,” Quaker History 95:1(Spring 2006): 1-25.
“Interactions of Mission-Oriented Quakers with Buddhists, 1885-1935,” Quaker History 93:2 (Fall 2004): 1-27.
“The Catechisms of George Fox,” Quaker Theology 9 (Fall-Winter 2003): 90-107. http://www.quaker.org/quest/issue-9-angell-01.htm
Patrick Nugent, Stephen W. Angell, and David Johns, “The Church: Called, Gathered, and Faithful, in response to The Nature and Purpose of the Church: A Stage on the Way to a Common Statement, Faith and Order Commission, World Council of Churches,” Quaker Theology 9 (Fall-Winter 2003): 132-145. http://quakertheology.org/issue-9-FUM-01.htm
“’Learn of the Heathen:’ Quakers and Indians in Southern New England, 1656-1676,” Quaker History 92:1 (Spring, 2003): 1-21.
“Friends for 350 More Years?” ESR Reports (Fall 2002): 1, 4-5. http://esr.earlham.edu/sites/default/files/esr_reportfall02.pdf
“A Black Minister Befriends ‘the Unquestioned Father of Civil Rights:’ Henry McNeal Turner, Charles Sumner and the African-American Quest for Freedom,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 85:1 (Spring 2001): 27-58.
“Rufus Jones and the Laymen’s Foreign Mission Inquiry: How a Quaker Helped to Shape Modern Ecumenism,” Quaker Theology 2:2 (Autumn 2000): 167-209. http://quaker.org/quest/issue3-6.html.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Friends, Society of: Literature.” In Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Vol. 9. Berlin and Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2014.
“Philip Gulley.” In Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers), 2nd ed. Ed. by Margery Post Abbott et al. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011.
“Methodists: African American,” Encyclopedia of Religion in America. Ed. by Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010. III, 1340-1346.
“African Americans in the Episcopal Church” and “African Methodist Episcopal Church,” African American Religious Cultures. Ed. by Anthony Pinn. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009. I, 25-38, 58-66.
“Religion and Race” and “African-American Religion,” The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 2006.
“Protestantism in the Americas.” In Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2d ed. Ed. by Colin A. Palmer. Detroit: Thomson-Gale, 2006. IV, 1843-1849.
“Friends General Conference” in The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, ed. by Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge, 2004. II, 778.
“Friends World Committee for Consultation” in The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, ed. by Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge, 2004. II, 778.
“Henry McNeal Turner,” in The New Georgia Encyclopedia (on-line, 2002). http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-632
“Jordan Early,” “Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton,” and “Henry McNeal Turner.” In American National Biography. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.
“African-American Religion.” In The African-American Almanac, 8th ed. 1999; 6th ed. 1994.
“Henry McNeal Turner.” In The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996.
“Anthony Benezet,” “Henry Evans,” “Stephen Grellet,” “Joseph John Gurney,” and “David Sands.” In The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, 1730-1860. London: Blackwell Press, 1996.
“Henry McNeal Turner,” “Joseph John Gurney,” “Henry Highland Garnet,” “George Alexander McGuire,” “Marshall Keeble,” “Charles M. (Sweet Daddy) Grace,” and “William Henry Miles.” In the Dictionary of Christianity in America. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1990.
Forewords
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Nicole von Germeten, Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Julius H. Bailey, Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Mary Ann Clark, Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santeria Ritual Practices and Their Gender Implication. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Yolanda Pierce, Hell without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Noel Leo Erskine, From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Christine Ayorinde, Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Canter Brown, Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers, ‘For a Great and Grand Purpose:’ The Beginnings of the A.M.E.Z. Church in Florida, 1864-1905. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Miguel A. De la Torre, The Quest for the Cuban Christ: A Historical Search. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Lewis V. Baldwin, and Amiri YaSin Al-Hadid, Between the Cross and the Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
Stephen Angell and Anthony Pinn, “Foreword,” to Larry Rivers and Canter Brown, Jr., ‘Laborers in the vineyard of the Lord:’ The Beginnings of the A.M.E. Church in Florida, 1865-1895. The History of African-American Religions Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Book Reviews
Review of Ruben Van Luijk, Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 86:2 (June 2018): 577-580.
Review of Judith Weisenfeld, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, in American Historical Review 123:1 (Feb. 2018): 247-248.
Review of Anne M. Blankenship, Christianity, Social Justice, and the Japanese American Incarceration in World War II, in Quaker Studies 22:2 (Dec. 2017): 249-251. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/quaker/22/2
Review of Paul Harvey, Christianity and Race in the American South, in Reading Religion, Oct. 18, 2017, http://readingreligion.org/books/christianity-and-race-american-south
Stephen Angell and Ben Pink Dandelion, “Response from the Editors” (to reviews of Early Quakers and their Theological Thought, 1647-1723) in Quaker Religious Thought 128 (Mar. 2017): 33-37.
Review of Matthew Harper, The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation, in Reading Religion, Feb. 3, 2017, http://readingreligion.org/books/end-days
Review of Louis Venters, No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina’s Bahai Community, in American Historical Review 121:4 (Oct. 2016): 1301-2.
Review of Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie, in Church History 85:1 (March 2016): 205-207.
Review of David L. Crosby, The Complete Antislavery Writings of Anthony Benezet, in Quaker History (Spring 2015): 50-51.
Review of Chuck Fager, Angels of Progress: A Documentary History of the Progressive Friends: Radical Quakers in a Turbulent America, in Quaker Theology 25 13:2 (Summer-Fall 2014): 77-84. http://quakertheology.org/QT25-Angell-Fager.html
Review of Patricia Appelbaum, Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam Era, in Quaker Studies 18:2 (Spring 2014): 260-262. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol18/iss2/10/
Review of Christopher Tomlins, Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, in Quaker Studies 18:2 (Spring 2014): 262-264. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol18/iss2/11/
Review of Allan W. Austin, Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 in Quaker History 102:3 (Fall 2013): 52-54.
Review of A. Glenn Crothers, Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth: The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730-1865, in the Journal of Southern Religion 15 (2013). http://jsr.fsu.edu/issues/vol15/angell.html
Review of Julius H. Bailey, Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the AME Church, in Journal of American History 99:4 (March 2013): 1265-1266.
Review of Dennis C. Dickerson, African American Preachers and Politics: the Careys of Chicago, in Church History 81:2 (Jun. 2012): 499-501.
Review of Claus Bernet, Rufus Jones (1863-1848): Life and Bibliography of an American Scholar, Writer, and Social Activist, in Quaker Studies 16:2 (March 2012): 224-226. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol16/iss2/11/
Review of Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye, Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African-Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice, in Quaker Studies 16:2 (March 2012): 241-243. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol16/iss2/20/
Review of Toni P. Anderson, “Tell Them We Are Singing For Jesus:” The Original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian Reconstruction, 1871-1878, in Journal of American History 97:4 (March 2011): 1131-2.
Review of Thomas C. Kennedy, A History of Southland College: The Society of Friends and Black Education in Arkansas, in Quaker Theology 10:1 (Winter-Fall 2010-2011): 79-87. http://quakertheology.org/QT-18-Online.pdf
Review of Margery Post Abbott, To Be Broken and Tender: A Quaker Theology for Today, in Quaker Theology 9:2 (Spring-Summer 2010): 53-54. http://quakertheology.org/Abbott-Review-QT-17.html
Review of Adele Oltman, Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow, in American Historical Review 115:4 (Dec. 2009): 1484-1485.
Review of Pink Dandelion, An Introduction to Quakerism, in The Journal of Religion (Jan. 2009): 114-116.
Review of Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, eds., Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, in Journal of American History 95:2 (Sept. 2008): 515-516.
Review of R. Clifford Jones, James K. Humphrey and the Sabbath-Day Adventists, in American Historical Review 113:3 (June 2008): 853.
Review of J. Gordon Melton, A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism, in Church History 77:1 (Mar. 2008): 187-189.
“Holiness, Perfection, and Orthodoxy: A Review of Carole Dale Spencer, Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism,” in Quaker Religious Thought 110 (Dec. 2007): 18-25. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol110/iss1/3/
Review of Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner and Margaret Hope Bacon, Back to Africa: Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880 in Quaker History 96:1 (Spring 2007): 53-57.
Review of James B. Bennett, Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans in The Journal of Southern History 72:4 (Nov. 2006): 966-7.
Review of Henry Mitchell, Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years in Church History 74:4 (Dec. 2005): 879-80.
Review of Graham Russell Hodges, ed., Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73:2 (June 2005): 536-9.
Review of Pink Dandelion, The Creation of Quaker Theory: Insider Perspectives in Quaker Studies 10:1 (2005): 114-6. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol10/iss1/10/
Review of Margery Post Abbott, Mary Ellen Chijioke, Pink Dandelion, and John W. Oliver, Historical Dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) in Quaker History 94:1 (Spring 2005): 57-9.
Review of R. Drew Smith, New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America in Church History 73:4 (Dec. 2004): 891-2.
Review of Peter J. Ling, Martin Luther King, Jr., in Journal of Southern Religion 7 (2004). (http://jsr.fsu.edu/Volume7/Ling.htm)
Review of Rosemary Moore, The Light in their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666, in Quaker Religious Thought, Nos. 99 & 100 (Apr. 2003): 37-43. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/qrt/vol99/iss1/6/
Review of Doug Gwyn, Seekers Found: Atonement in Early Quaker Experience, in Quaker History 91 (Fall, 2002): 38-39.
Review of Jualynne Dodson, Engendering Church: Women, Power, and the A.M.E. Church. Published in The North Star: A Journal of African American Religious History, Spring, 2002. http://www.princeton.edu/~jweisenf/northstar/volume5/dodson.html
Review of Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism, Edited by Yvonne Chireau and Nathaniel Deutsch, in The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History, Spring 2001. http://www.princeton.edu/~jweisenf/northstar/volume4/chireau_deutsch.html
Review of Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916, by Lawrence S. Little, in Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, April 2001.
Review of Black Judas: William Thomas and “The American Negro”, by John David Smith, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, Spring 2000. Pp. 170-172.
Review of Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration, by Milton Sernett, in The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, September 1999. Pp. 709-711.
Editorial Duties
Editor-in-Chief, Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies. We are under contract to produce four volumes a year for the years 2018 to 2022, with a possibility of extending the contract beyond 2022.
Associate Editor, Quaker Studies, Birmingham, U.K., 2011-present; guest co-editor for Vol. 22, Issue 2, Nov. 2017. An open access journal, it is available at http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/quaker
Associate Editor, Quaker Theology: A Progressive Journal and Forum for Discussion and Study, 2007-present. It is both a print and on-line journal, accessible at www.quakertheology.org/
Member of International Advisory Board, Journal of Africana Studies. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Will begin publication in 2013.
Co-editor, History of African-American Religions Series, sponsored by the University Press of Florida. Books published include:
Anthony Pinn, The African American Religious Experience in America. (2008)
Michael Lackey, African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Sociocultural Dynamics of Faith (2007)
Nicole von Germeten, Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans. (2006)
Julius H. Bailey, Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. (2005)
Mary Ann Clark, Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santeria Ritual Practices and Their Gender Implication. (2005)
Yolanda Pierce, Hell without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative. (2005)
Noel Leo Erskine, From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari Theology. (2005)
Christine Ayorinde, Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity. (2004)
Canter Brown, Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers. ‘For a Great and Grand Purpose:’ The Beginnings of the A.M.E.Z. Church in Florida, 1864-1905. (2004)
Lewis V. Baldwin and Amiri YaSin Al-Hadid, Between the Cross and the Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin. (2002)
Miguel de La Torre. The Quest for a Cultural Cuban Christ: A Historical Search. (2002)
Larry Rivers and Canter Brown, Jr., ‘Laborers in the vineyard of the Lord:’ The Beginnings of the A.M.E. Church in Florida, 1865-1895. (2001)
Television Documentaries
In October 1999, I served as a consultant for Blackside Productions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the preparation of “This Far by Faith,” a six-part documentary series on African-American religion. Subsequently, I was an academic advisor and also interviewed for the second segment, “God Is a Negro,” focusing on African American religion during Reconstruction. Completed by the Faith Project, Inc., and aired on Public Broadcasting stations nationwide, June 2003.
Recent Presentations
“Quaker Abolitionists: Lucretia Mott and Levi Coffin.” Workshop presented at the Ben Lomond Center, Ben Lomond, California. January, 2018.
“Reading Helen Morgan Brooks and Howard Thurman in the Age of Ferguson.” Lecture and Workshop for Quaker Heritage Days, Berkeley Friends Church, February 21, 2015.
“Richard Farnworth, Samuel Fisher, and the Authority of Scripture among Early Friends,” George Richardson Lecture at the Quaker Studies Research Association, Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Selly Oak, UK, October, 2014. https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/publications.php?action=publication&id=101
“A. Neave Brayshaw and the Re-Invigoration of the Quaker Peace Testimony during World War I,” (lecture) Meriam R. Hare Quaker Heritage Center at Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH, July, 2014.
“Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights,” (workshop) Pendle Hill, Wallingford, PA, June, 2012.
“The Meaning of Membership in the Religious Society of Friends,” (workshop) Pittsburgh Monthly Meeting, Apr. 2012.
“New Light on Elias Hicks,” (review) Quaker Theological Discussion Group, Nov. 2011.
“William Penn’s Debts to John Owen and Moses Amyraut on Questions of Truth, Grace, and Religious Toleration,” (lecture) Conference on William Penn (1644-1718): from Saumur’s Protestant Academy to Pennsylvania, Saumur, France, May, 2011.
“The True Nature of Quaker Community;” “The Light in the Understanding and Experience of Friends, with a focus on George Fox, J. J. Gurney, and Rufus Jones;” “Quakers and Holiness,” Lectures given to Cuba Yearly Meeting, Feb. 2011.
“The Light in the Understanding and Experience of Friends,” (lecture) Earlham School of Religion 50th Anniversary Celebration, Wilmington, Ohio, July, 2010
“The Foundations of Liberal Quakerism,” workshop offered at Friends General Conference Gathering, Bowling Green, Ohio, 2010; Blacksburg, Virginia, 2009.
“The Foundations of Liberal Quakerism,” Walton Lecture delivered to Southeastern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, March 2008.
“Early Friends’ Views of the Sacraments,” paper read at the meeting of the Quaker Theological Discussion Group, San Diego, California, November 2007.
“Mysticism into Action: Henry Hodgkin and Rufus Jones,” workshop offered at the Friends General Conference Gathering, River Falls, Wisconsin, July 2007.
Respondent for Panel on “Friends and Race” at the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists, Greensboro, N.C., June 2006.
“Rufus Jones and Modern Quakerism,” Workshop offered at the Friends General Conference Gathering in Tacoma, Washington, July 2006; and Blacksburg, Virginia, July 2005.
“Rethinking Rufus Jones for the Twenty-First Century.” Weeklong Course offered at Pendle Hill, a Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, Jan. 16 – 21, 2005.
“Puritan or Spiritualist Bible Interpretation? Comparing Seventeenth-Century Quaker Exegesis of Col. 1:23-28 and Col. 2:14-17 with that of their Protestant Contemporaries and Forebears,” Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists, Newberg, Oregon, June 2004.
“Bunji and Toshi Kida and Friends’ Missions to the Japanese in California,” Presented to Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, November, 2003.
Workshop presented at Michigan Friends Center, “Early Quaker Women,” November, 2002.
Workshop presented at Southeastern Yearly Meeting “The Light in the Experience and Understanding of Early Friends,”April, 2003.
Workshop presented at Friends General Conference, “Faith and Practice among Friends,” Johnstown, Pennsylvania, July 2003; Normal, Illinois, July, 2002.
“Radical Vision and Historical Development.” [A Response to Barry Callen’s Radical Christianity: The Believers’ Church Tradition in Christianity’s History and Future (Nappanee, Ind.: Evangel Pub. House, 1999.] Presented at the ESR Pastor’s Conference, Oct. 1, 2001.
Honors
Lauréat du concours: L'influence de l'Académie de Saumur sur les idées politiques de William Penn, Saumur, France, May 20, 2011.
Fellow, NEH Seminar, “Zen Buddhist Philosophy,” Ohio State University, Summer, 1997.
Participant, NEH Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa, “Beyond Texts: Religion and Material Culture,” Summer, 1993.
Fellow, NEH Seminar, University of Mississippi, “Religious Traditions and the History of the South,” Summer, 1992.
Fellow, NEH Seminar, Northwestern University, “The Interactions of Peoples and Cultures in North America,” Summer, 1989.
Professional Memberships
American Academy of Religion
Offices Held:
National Co-Chair, Afro-American Religious History Group, 1997-2000
Steering Committee Member, Afro-American Religious History Group.
Chair, African-American Religion, Southeast Region, 1994-1997.
Steering Committee Member, Quaker Studies Group, 2013-present.
Member, Jury for Best Academic Book of Religion by First-Time Author, 2017-present
Friends Historical Association
Quaker Theological Discussion Group
Member, Editorial Advisory Committee
Quaker Studies Research Association
