A. G. Miller
Associate Professor
Rice 327
x8652
A.G.Miller@Oberlin.edu
Office Hours
Education
- B.S.W., Adelphi University, 1978
- M.S.W., Adelphi University, 1979
- M.A., Princeton University, 1989
- Ph.D., Princeton University, 1994
Selected Publications
- Elevating The Race: Theophilus G. Steward and The Making of An African-American Civil Religion, 1865-1924, University of Tennessee Press, Spring, 2003
- "The Construction of A Black Fundamentalist World View: The Role of Bible Schools." In African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Text and Social Texture. ed. Vincent Wimbush. Continuum International, Fall 2000.
- "The Rise of African-American Evangelicalism in American Culture" in Perspectives on American Religion and Culture. ed. Peter Williams. Oxford:Blackwell Publishers Limited, 1999.
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"A Timeline of Black Christianity before the Civil War."
Christian History Issue 62, vol. XVIII, no. 2:
26-27.
Detailed timeline - "At-Risk Youth, At-Risk Church: What Jesus Christ And African American Teenagers Are Telling to The African American Church." The 1997 Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church and Culture , Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. http://www.ptsem.edu/iym/index.htm.
- "Striving to Reconcile the World: A Glimpse of the Life and Writings of Theophilus Gould Steward" in The A. M. E. Church Review, Vol., CXI, no.362, 1996.
- "Pentecostalism as a Social Movement: Beyond the Theory of Deprivation" in Journal of Pentecostal Theology, 9 (Fall 1996): 97-114.
- "National Black Evangelical Association" in Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, eds. Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West. New York: Macmillan Reference Library, 1996.
Courses
- Religion 105. Introduction to Religion: African Religions and Their Thought Systems
- Religion 115. Colloquim: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Religion 282. Survey of American Christianity
- Religion 284. The History of the African-American Religious Experience
- Religion 285. Evangelicalism in the United States
- Religion 384. Seminar: Selected Topics in African-American Religious History: The Black Theology Movement
- Religion 385. Seminar: Selected Topics in American Religious History

