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Bear Hall 282 |
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murrells@uncw.edu |
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| M.A |
Rutgers University, 1991 |
| Ph.D |
Drew University, 1988 |
| M.A. |
Drew University, 1986 |
| M.A. |
Wheaton Graduate School, 1981 |
| B.A. |
Jamaica Theological Seminary, 1978 |
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(2009). Afro-Caribbean Religions: An Introductions to their Historical Cultural and Sacred Traditions. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
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(2000). H. Gossai and N. S. Murrell (Eds.), Religion , Culture, and Tradition in the Caribbean. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
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(1998). N. Samuel Murrell, William D. Spencer, and Adrian Anthony McFarlane (Eds.), Chanting Down Babylon, The Rastafari Reader. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
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(2010). Civil disobedience and the Law. New York: Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence.
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(2010). Rastafari and Violence. New York: Encyclopedia of Religion and Violence.
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(2009). "Playing with the First 100 Psalms" in The Bible and the Africana Experience, Vol. 1, eds. Hugh Page et al, 17. Fortress Press: Minneapolis.
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(2009). "Song of Songs: A Black Woman's Song" in The Bible and the Africana Experience, Vol. 1, eds. Hugh Page et al. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
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(2006). "The Rastafari as a Case Study in the Caribbean Indigenization of the Bible" in Voices from the Margin, Interpreting the Bible in the Third World, ed. R. S. Sugirtharajah, 169-188. New York: Maryknoll.
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(2000). "Dangerous Memories, Underdevelopment, and the Bible in Colonial Caribbean Experience" in Religion Culture and Tradition in the Caribbean, eds. Nathaniel S. Murrell et al., 9-35. New York: St. Martin's Press.
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(2000). "Holy Piby, Blackman's Bible and Garveyite Ethiopianist Epic with Commentary" in Religion Culture and Tradition in the Caribbean, eds. Nathaniel S. Murrell et al., 272-306. New York: St. Martin's Press.
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(2000). "Wresting the Message from the Messenger, The Rastafari as a Case Study in the Caribbean Indigenization of the Bible" in African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Text and Social Texure, ed. Vincent L. Wimbash, 558-576. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.
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(1998). "Rastafari's Messianic Ideology and Caribbean Theology of Liberation" in Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader, eds. Nathaniel S. Murrell et al., 390-411. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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(1998). "The Black Biblical Hermeneutics of Rastafari" in Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader, eds. Nathaniel S. Murrell et al., 326-348. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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(1998). "Rastas' Psychology of Blackness, Resistance, and Somebodiness" in Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader, eds. Nathaniel S. Murrell et al., 36-64. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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(2009). "Mohandas K. Gandhi: The Making of an anti-Colonial Satyagraha Prophet." Journal of Commonwealth Post-Colonial Studies, 15(1).
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(2009). "Medicated Ganja and Rasta Rituals: Allies in a Global Battle." Jamaica Journal, 7, University of West Indies(IDEAZ): 82-107.
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(2008). "Satyagraha & Ahimsa, Gandhi's Weapons of Moral & Political Power." Thinking About Religion, 7:1-9.
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(2001). "Tunning Hebrew Psalms to Reggae Rhythms: Rastas' Revolutionary Lamentations for Social Change." Cross Currents, 50 (4): 525-540.
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(1999). "Hermeneutics as Interpretation, Part 2: Contextual Truths in Sub Version Preaching." Caribbean Journal of Evangelical Theolgory, 3: 48-66.
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(1998). "Should Christians be Involved in Jamaican Politics." Caribbean Journal of Evangelical Theology, 2: 45-62.
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(1997). "Hermeneutics as Interpretation and the Caribbean Student: Part I, BINAH." Journal of Caribbean Graduate School of Theology, 2: 7-28.
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(1995). "Jamaican Americans". Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2: 783-797.
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(1995). "The Human Paul of the New Testament: Anti Judaism in I Thess 2:14-16." Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society, 14: 169-186.
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(1995). "Trinidadian and Tobagonian Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2: 1350-1363.
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(1994). "Woman as Source of Evil and Contaminant in Rastafarianism: Championing Hebrew Patriarchy and Oppresion with Lev. 12." Eastern Great Lakes and Midwest Biblical Society, 13: 191-209.
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Research Reassignment, UNCW. (January 2005).
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Summer Initiative, UNCW College of Arts and Sciences. (June 1996).
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Research award, American Academy of Religion. (June 1995).
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The Henry Luce Summer Research Award, The College of Wooster. (1992).
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(2009). "Civil Disobedience, Law and Religion: An Uncomfortable Triad," given at the NCRSA, Western Carolina University, NC.
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(2009) "The Beginning is not what it was: Darwin's Impact on the Academic Study of Religion given at the SECSOR Annual Meeting, Greensboro, NC, March.
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(2009). "Mahatma Ghandi: An Early Twentieth Centurn Prophet of Social and Political Power," given at the Ghandi International Conference on Global Nonviolence, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, April 9-10.
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(2007). "A Centuy After Albert Schweiter's Quest, Where is the Historical Jesus?" given at SECSOR, Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.
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(2006) "If Hummaurabi is a Source for the Covenant Code, Should the Decalogue Matter in Modern Use of the Bible?" given at ETS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
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(2006). "The State and Future of Theological Education in the Caribbean," given at Ocho Rios, Jamaica, West Indies.
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(2006). "Will God and Charles Darwin Ever Meet? Back to Battle for the Bible in Southern Schools," given at SECSOR, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
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(2005). "Women and Relgion in Hilter's Nazi Party," given with Michelle Clark at the NCRSA, Wingate University, NC.
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(2005). "Levianthan's Christian Commnonwealth: A Hobbesian View of the Kingdom of God," given at ETS.
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(2005). "Roots Ethics ," Teaching Environmental Ethics Section given at AAR/SECSOR, Winston-Salem.
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(2005). "Black Women on Contemporary Christianity ," given at Women in Christianity: Unveiling Their Stories Conference, UNCW.
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(2004). "Ethiopian Skin and Leopard Spots: The Character of God and Ethnic Notions in Jeremiah's Theology of Retribution ," given at ETS.
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(2004). "The Impossible Reconciler: Bruce Feiler's Abraham for Middle East Crisis ," given at AAR/SECSOR.
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(2002). "Make no Covenant, Show no Mercy, Do not intermarry! Biblica Intolerance and Multicultural Evangelicalism ," given at the Annual Meeting of Evangelical Theology Society.
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(2002). "Obeah: Mystery of Iniquity, or a Caribbean System of Medicine?" given at AAR.
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(2002). "Santeria, Myth, Magic and Mystery in Caribbean Religions," given at NCRSA.
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(2001). "Ganja and Peyote, Forbidden Rituals of the Oppressed ," given at NCRSA.
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(2000). "Legalizing it: The San Francisco Appellate Court Ruling and the Global Accepatance of Rastafari as a Religion Sui Generis," AAR/SBL, Nashville, TN.
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(2000). "Africanizing Jewish-Christian Apocalyptic: Ethiopia as hemeneutic of a Change Agent from the Margins," ETS, Nashville.
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(2000). "Ethiopia as Hemeneutical Method: Psalm 68:13 in the Liberation Theological Tradition of the African Diaspora," AAR/SBL/SCSOR, Atlanta, GA.
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(2000). "The Influence of Rastafari on the Western Judicial System: The Montana Case Study ," given at AAR.
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(2000). "Teaching the Ten Commandments at a Public University ," given at AAR/SECSOR.
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(2000). "Creole oruba in Trinidad and Grenada, Case Studies and Anecdotes on African Religions ," given at NCRSA.
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Advisory Board Member, UNCW Upperman African American Culture Center. (Summer 2009 - Present).
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Committee Member, UNCW Cirriculum Committee. (August 2008 - Present).
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Committee Member, UNCW Faculty Senate. (August 2005 - Present).
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Co-Coordinator, Africana Studies Minor. (August 2005 - Present).
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Committee Member, UNCW Athletics Council. (August 15, 2006 - May 30, 2009).
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