| College of Human Sciences | |
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| School of Humanities | |
| Department: Philosophy, Practical and Systematic The | |
| Research Fellow | |
| Tel: | +1 412 924 1457 |
| E-mail: | rsmith@pts.edu |
Contemporary African American Clergy and Public Life, (Columbia University Press, advanced contract)
“The Church,” The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014: 228-241
“Black Clergy, Educational Fairness, and Pursuit of the Common Good,” in R. Drew Smith (ed.), From Every Mountainside: Black Churches and Civil Rights Beyond the Southern Movement, SUNY Press, 2013: 167-188
“U.S. Evangelicals, Racial Politics, and Social Transition in Contemporary South Africa,” in R. Drew Smith (ed.), Freedom’s Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa, Baylor University Press, 2006: 169-188
“American Evangelists and Church-State Dilemmas in Multiple African Contexts,” in R. Drew Smith (ed.), Freedom’s Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa, Baylor University Press, 2006: 143-154
“African American Churches and the Changing Nature of Church-State Relations,” Representative American Speeches, H.W. Wilson Publishing Co., 2005: 66-76
“Black Clergy and Government During George W. Bush’s Presidency” in R. Drew Smith and Fredrick Harris (eds.), Black Churches and Local Politics: Clergy Influence, Organizational Partnerships, and Civic Empowerment, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005: 187-199
“Assessing the Public Policy Practices of African American Churches,” in R. Drew Smith (ed.), Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America, Duke University Press, 2004: 9-27
(With Corwin Smidt), “System Confidence, Congregational Resources, and Black Church Civic Engagement” in R. Drew Smith (ed.), New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America, Duke University Press, 2003: 58-85
(With Tamelyn Tucker-Worgs), “Megachurches: African-American Churches in Social and Political Context,” National Urban League’s State of Black America, millennial issue, 2000: 171-198
“Black Religious Nationalism and the Politics of Transcendence,” Reprint in Larry Murphy (ed.), Down by the Riverside: Readings in African American Religion, New York University Press, 2000: 317-328
“Sub-Texts: Response,” in African Americans and the Bible, edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, New York: Continuum Books, 2000: 832-834
“Ecclesiastical Racism and the Politics of Confession in the U.S. and South Africa,” in William Van Vugt and G. Daan Cloete (eds.), Race, Ethnicity, and Reconciliation in South Africa: A Multicultural and Comparative Dialogue, Lexington Books, 2000: 53-76
Editor (with William Ackah, Anthony Reddie, Rothney Tshaka), Contesting Post Racialism: Conflicted Churches in the U.S. and South Africa, University Press of Mississippi, 2015;
Editor (with William Ackah, Anthony Reddie), Churches, Blackness, and Contested Multiculturalism: Europe, North America, and Africa, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Editor, From Every Mountainside: Black Churches and Civil Rights Beyond the Southern Movement, State University of New York Press, 2013;
Editor, Freedom’s Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa, Baylor University Press, 2006
Editor (with Fredrick Harris), Black Churches and Local Politics: Clergy Influence, Organizational Partnerships, and Civic Empowerment, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005
Editor, Long March Ahead: African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America, Duke University Press, 2004
Editor, New Day Begun: African American Churches and Civic Culture in Post-Civil Rights America, Duke University Press, 2003
“Churches and the Invisible Urban Poor,” Pittsburgh Theological Journal, Spring 2015;
“’Higher Ground’: the Elusive Church Consensus on Equality, Empowerment, and Community in Urban America,” Pittsburgh Theological Journal, Spring 2014: 25-39
“Religion, Race, and the Making of American Global Citizens,” Review of Faith and International Affairs, Spring 2012; pp. 5-14
“Balancing U.S. Faith-Based Strategies in Africa,” Review of Faith and International Affairs, September 2008: 47-51
“Black Denominational Responses to U.S.-Middle East Policy Since 9/11,” Review of Faith and International Affairs, March 2008: 5-16
(With Michael Owens), “Social Welfare Ministries in Public Housing Neighborhoods: Policy Implications of Church Practices,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, September 2005;
“Churches and the Urban Poor: Interaction and Social Distance,” Sociology of Religion, 62 (3), Fall 2001: 301-313
“Between Symbolism and Substance: the Politics of Racial Reconciliation Within U.S. and South African Churches,” Christian Scholar’s Review, 30 (3), Spring 2001: 305-322
“Missionaries, Church Movements, and the Shifting Religious Significance of the State in Zambia,” Journal of Church and State, 41 (3), 1999: 525-55
"Black Religious Nationalism and the Politics of Transcendence," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 66 (3), 1998: 533-547
"African-American Protestants, Political Activism and 'Liberal' Redemptive Hopes," Theology Today, 53 (2), July 1996: 191-200
"Black Clergy, Electoral Participation and Interest Representation," Humanity and Society, 18 (4), 1994: 1-12
"Black Religion-Based Politics, Cultural Popularization and Youth Allegiance," Western Journal of Black Studies, 18 (3), 1994: 115-120
"Slavery, Secession and Southern Protestant Shifts on the Authority of the State," Journal of Church and State, 36 (2), 1994: 261-276
"Popular Democracy Denied, Elite Dominion Preserved: Antebellum Southern Methodists and Abolitionist and Democratic Dissenters," Southern Studies 3 (4), 1992: 305-319