Positions

Overview

  • A Caribbean-American academic who has taught religious studies in Trinidad, Jamaica, New Jersey, Ohio, and North Carolina. since 1981.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2010-04-01 The Rastafarian MovementGlobal Exchange2010-04-01
    2009-11-01 Mohandas K. Gandhi: The Making of an anti-Colonial Satyagraha ProphetJournal of Commonwealth and Pos-Colonial Studies.  15:143-161. 2009-11-01
    2008-07-01 Medicated Ganja and Rasta Rituals: Allies in a Global BattleIDEAZ: The Globalization of Rastafari.  7:115-137. 2008-07-01
    2008-06-01 Satyagraha & Ahimsa, Gandhi's Weapons of Moral & Political Power.  7:9. 2008-06-01
    2001-02-01 Tunning Hebrew Psalms to Reggae Rhythms: Rastas' Revolutionary Lamentations for Social ChangeCross Currents.  50 number 4:525-540. 2001-02-01
    2000-06-01 Evangelical Theory in the Millennium, The Global God: Multicultural Evangelical Views of God in ReviewCaribbean Journal of Evangelical Theology.  4:67-81. 2000-06-01
    2000-06-01 The Global God: Multicultural Evangelical Views of GodCaribbean Journal of Evangelical Theology.  4:67-81. 2000-06-01
    2000-01-01 Tuning Hebrew Psalms to Reggae Rhythms, Rastas - Revolutionary Lamentations for Social ChangeCross Currents.  16-31. 2000-01-01
    1999-01-01 Hermeneutics as Interpretation, Part 2: Contextual Truths in Sub Version PreachingCaribbean Journal of Evangelical Theolgory.  3:48-66. 1999-01-01
    1998-01-01 Should Christians be Involved in Jamaican PoliticsCaribbean Journal of Evangelical Theology.  2:45-62. 1998-01-01
    1997-01-01 Hermeneutics as Interpretation and the Caribbean Student: Part I, BINAHJournal of Caribbean Graduate School of Theology.  2:7-28. 1997-01-01
    1995-01-01 Jamaican AmericansGale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America.  2:783-797. 1995-01-01
    1995-01-01 The Human Paul of the New Testament: Anti Judaism in I Thess 2:14-16Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society.  14:169-186. 1995-01-01
    1995-01-01 Trinidadian and Tobagonian AmericansGale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America.  2:1350-1363. 1995-01-01
    1994-01-01 Woman as Source of Evil and Contaminant in Rastafarianism: Championing Hebrew Patriarchy and Oppresion with Lev. 12Eastern Great Lakes and Midwest Biblical Society.  13:191-209. 1994-01-01
    1989-01-01 Linking Auschwitz to the Demise of Jesus in Jewish-Christian DialogueParadigms.  101-116. 1989-01-01

    Book

    Year Title Altmetric
    2009-12-01 Afro-Caribbean Religions: An Introductions to their Historical Cultural and Sacred Traditions.  Temple University Press. 2009-12-01
    2009-11-01 The Africana Bible, Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora.  Augsburg Fortress Press. 2009-11-01
    2000-09-01 Religion, Culture and Tradition in the Caribbean.  St. Martin's Press. 2000-09-01
    2000-01-01 Dangerous Memories, Underdevelopment, and the Bible in Colonial Caribbean Experience.  St. Martin's Press. 2000-01-01
    1998-01-01 Chanting Down Babylon, The Rastafari Reader.  Temple University Press. 1998-01-01
    1998-01-01 Rastas' Psychology of Blackness, Resistance, and Somebodiness.  . 1998-01-01

    Chapter

    Year Title Altmetric
    2012-04-01 Identity, Subversion and Reconstructioin Riddims: Reggae as Cultural Expression of Rastafarian Theology.  Brill Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production. 495-518. 2012-04-01
    2010-12-01 Civil disobedience.  Religion and Violence: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict from Antiquity to the Present. 2010-12-01
    2010-04-01 Rastafari and Violence.  Religion and Violence: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict from Antiquity to the Present. 2010-04-01
    2009-11-01 "Santeria".  Hispanic American Religious Cultures. 501-513. 2009-11-01
    2009-11-01 Playing with the First 100 Psalms in the Africana Experience.  The Africana Bible, Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora. 220-236. 2009-11-01
    2009-11-01 Song of Songs: A Black Woman's Song.  Fortress Press. 255-259. 2009-11-01
    2006-09-01 The Rastafari as a Case Study in the Caribbean Indigenization of the Bible.  Voices from the Margins, Interpreting the Bible in the Third World. 169-188. 2006-09-01
    2006-04-01 Afro-Jamaican Religions: Kumina, Myal, and Obeah.  Encyclopedia of African Folklore. 2006-04-01
    2006-04-01 Rastafari Traditions: Bobo Dreads, Kebra Nagast, Marcus GArvey, Nyabinghi, Twelve Tribes.  Encyclopedia of African Aolklore. 2006-04-01
    2006-03-01 Jamaican Religions: Marcus Garvey, Myal, Rastafari, Bobo Dreads, Kebra Nagast, Nyabinghi Order, Twelve Tribes.  Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, by Greenwood Publishing Group. 2006-03-01
    2003-04-01 Rastafari and Religious Freedom.  Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom. 359-361. 2003-04-01
    2000-01-01 Holy Piby, Blackman's Bible and Garveyite Ethiopianist epic with Commentary.  St. Martin's Press. 272-306. 2000-01-01
    2000-01-01 Wresting the Message from the Messenger, The Rastafari as a Case Study in the Caribbean Indigenization of the Bible.  African americans and the Bible, Sacred Texts and Social Texture. 558-76. 2000-01-01
    1998-01-01 Rastafari's Messianic Ideology and Caribbean Theology of Liberation.  Chanting Down Babylon, The Rastafari Reader. 390-411. 1998-01-01
    1998-01-01 The Black Biblical Hermeneutics of Rastafari.  Chanting Down Babylon the Rastafari Reader. 326-348. 1998-01-01
    1997-10-01 Up From Slavery, An American Classic.  Masterplots Twentieth Anniversary, Supplement to The African American Encyclopedia. 5 pages. 1997-10-01
    1992-11-01 Let the Circle Be Unbroken.  Masterpieces of African american Literature. 257-260. 1992-11-01
    1992-01-01 Afrocentrism, African American Studies.  Encyclopedia of African American Studies. 35-38. 1992-01-01
    1992-01-01 Emancipation Proclamation, Plessy V Ferguson, Brown V. Board of Education Essays in African American Studies.  Encyclopedia of African American Studies. 233-235, 527. 1992-01-01

    Document

    Year Title Altmetric
    2012-03-01 "Caribbean Religious History: An IntroductionNew West Indiean Guide (Nieuwe West-Indische Gids). 62-64. 2012-03-01
    2008-04-01 African Immigrant Religion in America edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Regina GemignaniJournal of African american History. 463-465. 2008-04-01
    2007-04-01 From Garvey to Marley, Rastafari Theology by Noel Leo ErskineJournal of Church and State. 138-140. 2007-04-01
    2005-09-01 No Longer Slaves: Galatians and African American ExperienceETS. 2005-09-01
    2004-11-01 Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring TraditionStudies in Religion. 2004-11-01
    2003-11-01 Then the Whisper Put on Flesh: New Testament Ethics in an African American ContextJETS. 365-67. 2003-11-01
    2001-04-01 Sacred Leaves of Candomble: African Magic, medicine, and Religion in BrazilJournal of Religion. 333-335. 2001-04-01

    Presentations

    Research Overview

  • Caribbean religions & Culture/ Rastafari African American religions Civil Rights Holocaust, Biblical Studies Scriptures
  • Teaching Overview

  • Religious Studies: African Religions/Cultures; Caribbean Religions; African-American Religion; World Religions, Great Books of World Religions.
  • Full Name

  • Nathaniel Samuel Murrell