Julius Bailey
The Eugene Farlough-California Chair in African-American Christianity
Graduate School of Theology Professor, Religious Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
Graduate School of Theology Professor, Religious Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Julius H. Bailey is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Redlands. He received a B.A. in Religious Studies from Occidental College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches courses on varied aspects of religion. He has written three books, Down in the Valley: An Introduction to African American Religious History (Fortress Press, 2016), Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (University of Tennessee Press, 2012), and Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900 (University Press of Florida, 2005) as well as several articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. He has also given lectures on African mythology entitled, “The Great Mythologies of the World: Africa,” produced by the Great Courses DVD series.
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B.A., Religious Studies, Occidental College, 1993
M.A, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996
Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003
Dissertation: “Around the Domestic Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900.”
- Race & Ethnic Issues
- Social Science
- Religion in America
- African American Religious History
- Church History
- New Religious Movements
- Religion in the American West
- AME Church History
Books:
Down in the Valley: An Introduction to African American Religious History (Fortress Press, 2016)
Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (University of Tennessee Press, 2012)
Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900 (University Press of Florida, 2005)
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Sacred Not Secret: Esoteric Knowledge in the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors,” in Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There is a Mystery” (Brill, 2014)
“‘Cult’ Knowledge: The Challenges of Studying New Religious Movements in America,” in Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back (University of Georgia Press, 2012)
“Masculinizing the Pulpit: Images of the Black Preacher in Nineteenth-Century America,” in Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U. S. History and Literature, 1820-1945 (Ohio State University Press, 2011)
“Classifying the ‘Great World Religions’: The Legacy of Darwinism in the Study of African Traditional Religions,” in 150 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Impact on the Humanities and Social Sciences (San Diego State University Press, 2011)
“Fearing Hate: Re-Examining the Media Coverage of the Christian Identity Movement,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism v 4, n 1 (Spring 2010): 55-73
“‘That Hardy Race of Pioneers’: Constructions of Race and Masculinity in AME Church Histories, 1865-1900,” Council of the Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin v 36, n 1 (February 2007): 7-10
“The Final Frontier: Secrecy, Identity, and the Media in the Rise and Fall of the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion v 74, n 2 (June 2006): 302-323