Freedom's Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa

About the Contributors

271 About the Contributors STEPHEN W. ANGELL is the Geraldine C. Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at the Earlham School of Religion. He has coedited Social Protest Thought in the AME Church (2000) with Anthony B. Pinn, and he is author of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South (1992). LEWIS V. BALDWIN is a professor in the department of religious studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of numerous articles on various aspects of African and African-American experiences. His books include There is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1991) and Toward the Beloved Community: Martin Luther King, Jr. and South Africa (1995). MARSHA SNULLIGAN HANEY is associate professor of missiology and religions of the world at the Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia and director of the Urban Theological Institute. She has traveled the world extensively and is the author of various writings including Islam and Protestant African-American Churches: Responses and Challenges to Religious Pluralism (1999). 272 About the Contributors DWIGHT N. HOPKINS is professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His publications include Being Human: Race, Culture, and Religion (2005); Heart and Head: Black Theology Past, Present, and Future (2003); Down, Up & Over: Slave Religion and Black Theology (1999); Introducing Black Theology of Liberation (1999); and Shoes That Fit Our Feet: Sources for a Constructive Black Theology (1993). He edited Black Faith & Public Talk: Critical Essays on James H. Cone’s Black Theology & Black Power (1999) and coedited Global Voices for Gender Justice (2001). MARK HULSETHER is associate professor of religious studies and American studies at the University of Tennessee. Recent publications include “Religion and Culture,” in Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion, ed. John Hinnells (NY: Routledge, 2005) and “Religion and Radical Democracy Since the 1960s,” American Quarterly (March 2005). NICO KOOPMAN is associate professor and chair of the department of systematic theology and ecclesiology, as well as director of the Beyers Naude Centre for Public Theology, at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He has authored various articles and chapters in books and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences. A book that he coauthored with Robert Vosloo, titled Die ligtheid van die lig: Morele orientasie in ‘n postmoderne tyd [The Lightness of the Light: Moral Orientation in a Postmodern Time], has won the Andrew Murray Prize for theological literature. PATRICK MAZZEO was a group leader and staff member at Operation Crossroads Africa from 1980 to 1987. His work involved both the volunteer Africa program and the reverse exchange short term visitor programs for African professionals. He has M.A. degrees in sociology and anthropology from the University of Oregon. MATTHEWS A. OJO earned his Ph.D. in theology from the University of London, England in 1986. His specialization is in church history, and his research interest centers on the dynamics of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements in contemporary Africa. He is presently a professor and head of the department of religious studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. His most recent publication is The End-Time Army: Charismatic Movements In Modern Nigeria (Laurenceville, NJ: Africa World Press, forthcoming ). LUTINIKO LANDU MIGUEL PEDRO is a Ph.D. student in missiology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, having received an M.A. in missiology from the Centre Universitaire de Missiologie in Kinshasa. He is from Angola and is an ordained Mennonite pastor who served as general secretary of the Inter-Mennonite Conference in Angola (2003–2004). About the Contributors 273 SANDRA J. SARKELA is associate professor and interim director of Graduate Studies in the Communication Department at the University of Memphis. Her research and teaching interests focus on the rhetoric of American social movements. She has a Ph.D. in communication studies from the University of Massachusetts. R. DREW SMITH is scholar-in-residence at the Leadership Center at Morehouse College where he directs a number of projects on religion and public life. He edited New Day Begun: African-American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America (2003); Long March Ahead: AfricanAmerican Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America (2004); and coedited with Fredrick C. Harris, Black Churches and Local Politics: Clergy Influence, Organizational Partnerships, and Civic Empowerment (2005). ...