Welcome to SSBR! Please see Annual Meetings link for information concerning the 42nd Annual Meeting and the special travel tour.
See link to Newsletters for the Spring, 2011, edition, with its posting of Featured Essays, recent member publications, employment notices, and fellowship opportunities.
In Memoriam
Dr. John Henderson Cartwright, one among the first members of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, passed this life on April 22, 2011. John was retired from the faculty of Boston University, where he held the Martin Luther King, Jr., Chair in Christian Ethics. He and his late wife Gloria moved to Dataw Island, SC, where they both took active leadership in developing the social and institutional structures of the larger Sea Island community, particularly to the benefit of African Americans. We honor John for his significant contributions to the unfolding of black religious scholarship, here in the SSBR and in the theological academy.
We ask also that you bear in your care Sr./Dr. Jaime Phelps, O.P., SSBR member, who grieves the recent loss while celebrating the life of her mother.
Member News
SR. JAMIE T. PHELPS, O.P., Ph.D, Director of the Institute of Black Catholic Studies, and the Katharine Drexel Professor of Systematic Theology at Xavier University, is retiring as of the end of this summer's Institute. After a lifetime of service in various fields of ministry, she will take a well-deserved break.
The Institute of Black Catholic Studies, recognized and celebrated Sr. Jamie Phelps' retirement as Director during the Ancestors' Celebration, was held on Friday, July 8, 2011 at Xavier University,
[The Ancestors' Celebration is an annual celebration where all come dressed in white (African dress if available)].
Plaudits to Dr. Walter Earl Fluker who has been named to the faculty of Boston University as the Martin Luther King, Jr., Professor of Ethical Leadership and the editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project. Previously, Walter was Founding Executive director of the Leadership Center and the Coca-Cola Professor of Leadership Studies at Morehouse College.
Joining him in Boston is Dr. Sharon Watson Fluker, as she makies her transition from distinguished service at the Fund for Theological Education as Vice President for Doctoral Programs and Administration
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