From Every Mountainside: Black Churches and the Broad Terrain of Civil Rights

Contributors

Contributors Carroll A. Watkins Ali is the executive director of the Greater Denver Interfaith Alliance and has a private pastoral psychotherapy practice. She earned her PhD in Religious and Theological Studies at the University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology and is the author of Survival and Liberation: Pastoral Theology in African American Context. R. Khari Brown is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Wayne State University. His research interests include the intersections between race, religion, and social activism. He is currently working on a series of articles that investigate the impact social-political messages heard in church have on the political behavior and policy attitudes of black, white, Asian, and Hispanic Americans. Katie Day holds the Charles A. Schieren Chair in Church and Society at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. As a sociologist, with degrees in social ethics and theology, she teaches courses that draw heavily on both the social sciences and social ethics. Her research interests have included extensive studies in African American congregations, crosscultural volunteerism, and faith-based involvement in economic development , community organizing, and social services. Her recent publications include Difficult Conversations: Taking Risks, Acting with Integrity (2001). Omari L. Dyson is an assistant professor of Curriculum Instruction in the Department of Teacher Education at South Carolina State University. Dyson earned his PhD in curriculum instruction at Purdue University in 2008. Juan M. Floyd-Thomas is associate professor of Black Church Studies at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School and core faculty of History and Critical Theories of Religion area in the Graduate Department of Religion. 355 356 Contributors He is author of The Origins of Black Humanism: Reverend Ethelred Brown and the Unitarian Church, 2008, and co-author of Black Church Studies: An Introduction, 2007, as well as several journal articles, book chapters, and other publications. Judson L. Jeffries is professor of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University. Prior to going to OSU he was an associate professor of political science, homeland security studies and American studies at Purdue University. Jeffries has published widely on the Black Panther Party. He earned his PhD in political science at the University of Southern California in 1997. Maurice Mangum is an associate professor of political science at Texas Southern University and editor of the Ralph Bunche Journal of Public Affairs. His specialty area is African American politics, with a focus on the impact of religion and race consciousness on the political attitudes and political behavior of African Americans. He has published in many outlets, most notably Political Research Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, Politics and Religion, and Journal of Black Studies. Steve McCutcheon is a former member of the Black Panther Party, having served in both Baltimore and Oakland for a period of ten years. McCutcheon earned an Associate of Arts degree in social science at Laney College and a B.A. in Applied Psychology at City University in Bellevue, Washington. Currently, he teaches at Carl B. Munck elementary school in Oakland, California. Larry G. Murphy is professor of the History of Christianity at GarrettEvangelical Theological Seminary. He is editor of Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion (New York University Press, 2000) and co-editor of The Encyclopedia of African American Religions (Routledge , 1993). He is also author of African American Faith in America (2002) and Sojourner Truth: A Biography, 2011. James R. Ralph, Jr. has taught at Middlebury College since 1989, where he is currently the Rehnquist Professor of American History and Culture and the Dean for Faculty Development and Research. He is the author of Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement (Harvard University Press, 1993). Rosetta E. Ross is professor of Religious Studies at Spelman College in Atlanta. Her research and writing explore the role of religion in black women’s activism, focusing particularly on the Civil Rights Movement. 357 Contributors She is author of Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights. David K. Ryden is a professor of political science at Hope College. He has authored, co-authored, or edited six books, including Sanctioning Religion?: Politics, Law, and Faith-Based Public Services (2006); Of Little Faith: The Politics of George W. Bush’s Faith-Based Initiatives (2004); The U.S. Supreme Court and The Electoral Process: Perspectives and Commentaries on Contemporary Cases, Revised and Updated Edition (2002), and Representation in Crisis: The Constitution, Interest Groups, and...