Religious Studies: Moses Moore

Professor of Religious Studies
Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary
Arrived at ASU: 1989

Office: ECA 369
Phone: (480) 965-8671 or 965-7145
E-mail: redshay@imap2.asu.edu
CV: (PDF)

Research Interests

African Religions, African-Amercan Religions, Religion and Music, Social Gospel Movement, Evangelical Pan-Africanism.

Biography

(Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary) is associate professor of American and African-American religions, specializing in the interaction of race, religion and culture. He holds a M. Div from Yale Divinity School, and has taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia, as well as the College of William and Mary.

Courses Taught

REL 225 - African-American Religion
REL 320 - American Religious Traditions
REL 322 - Malcolm and Martin : The Men and their Ministry
REL 323 - Black Religion - A Biographical Approach
REL 394 - Spirituals and the Blues
REL 405 - The Social Gospel Movement

Selected Publications

“’Behold the Dreamer Cometh’: Pan-Africanism and Biblical Hermenutics. “ In African Americans and the Bible, ed.Vincent Wimbush, (Continuum, 2000)

"Edward W. Blyden: From Old School Presbyterian Missionary to ‘Minister of Truth,’” Journal of Presbyterian History, Summer 1997.

Orishatukeh Faduma: Liberal Theology and Evangelical Pan-Africanism 1857-1946. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, Inc, 1996.

"Edward Blyden and the Presbyterian Mission In Liberia." In Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Spring 1994:59-114

"Orishatukeh Faduma and the New Theology." In Church History, March, 1994: 60-80

"Righteousness Exalts a Nation: Black Clergymen, Reform and New School Presbyterianism." American Presbyterians: Journal of Presbyterian History, Winter (1992): 222-238.