Moses N. Moore, Jr. was born in Clearwater, Florida. He received a B.A. from Eckerd College and subsequently studied church and mission history at Yale Divinity School where graduated with an Master’s of Divinity degree. He completed a doctorate in American and African American Church History at Union Theological Seminary (NYC). His dissertation explored the African and African American religious encounter with modernity.
Professor Moore has taught American and African American Religious History at William and Mary; the University of Missouri-Columbia; and Arizona State University. He has also served as chair of the Afro-American history section of the American Academy of Religion.
Among the courses that Moore has taught are: History and Historiography of the Social Gospel, Spirituals and the Blues,W. E. B. Du Bois and the Religious Imagination, African American Religious History and Historiography, Religion in America, American Religious Traditions, and African American Religion: A Biographical Approach.
Moore has been the recipient of a research fellowship from Yale Divinity School; twice received Cross Current (The Association for Religion and Intellectual Life) fellowships; and been the recipient of the “Woodrow Wilson Award” for his study of Edward Blyden.
Research and publication projects include a study of the African and Diaspora African encounter with modernity (with ongoing study in West African, South American and the Caribbean); the missionary encounter with modernity; the history of black theological education; Africans, African Americans and Native Americans in the American West; the intersection of race, religion, gender and modernity.
A new research project is focused on new religious movements and religious pluralism and examines the religious, political and cultural response to Scientology.
Major Publications:
Orishatukeh Faduma Liberal Theology and Evangelical Pan-Africanism– July 11, 1996
Review
A penetrating analysis of the life and writings of a Sierre Leonean Christian who contributed to Pan-Africanism on two continents... (Missiology)
..this study documents and interprets the fascinating career of a man born in British Guyana as William J. Davis who, after converting to Christianity in his parents' adopted country of Sierra Leone, took the name Orishatukeh Faduma, symbolic of his lifelong effort to proselytize for pan-Africanism...Faduma's writings demonstrate that theological modernism made important inroads among African-American religious thinkers, who have been too often sterotyped as immune to the "New Theology"...essential for African-American religious and intellectual history. (Religious Studies Review)
Books:
Book Chapters
Scholarly Articles
Spring 2022 | |
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REL 321 | Religion in America |
Fall 2021 | |
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REL 321 | Religion in America |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2021 | |
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REL 321 | Religion in America |
AFR 494 | Special Topics |
REL 494 | Special Topics |
REL 591 | Seminar |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 321 | Religion in America |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2020 | |
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REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 321 | Religion in America |
REL 323 | African American Religion |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 321 | Religion in America |
REL 324 | Spirituals and the Blues |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 321 | Religion in America |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 321 | Religion in America |
REL 323 | African American Religion |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
REL 321 | Religion in America |
REL 420 | Religion in Amer Life/Thought |
REL 792 | Research |
REL 799 | Dissertation |