R Dale Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 117437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Dale Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Dale |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Morehouse College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7986-3113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Black Neighborhood Hauntings: Cultural Erasure, Material Remnants, and Latent Memory
This article focuses on conflicts over appropriated black residential and cultural land spaces in downtown Indianapolis and on tensions over competing narrations and conceptualizations of the historical meanings of these neighborhood formations and re-formations. The analysis pays particular attention to ways material remnants of historic black buildings in the District retain memory of and impart truths about previously constructed black worlds,…
A Place Not Made by Hands: Unsteady Formations of Nationalist Religiosities in Malawi
This article focuses on the Christian ecclesiastical footing and moorings of nationalist thought and pursuits within colonial Nyasaland and its postindependence iteration as the nation of Malawi. Attention is paid to foundational influences and the impact of European mission churches, beginning in the late 1800s, and three streams of American Christianity that influenced social development in Malawi: (1) historic African American Methodist and Ba…
Things Unseen”: Urban (Dis)placement, Sacred Sensibilities, and Theological Vantage Points
This article explores the ways in which academic institutions in Pittsburgh have positioned themselves around local gentrification dynamics. It pays particular attention to academic facilitations of community-oriented analysis and engagement that attempts to counter gentrification's deformative and deracinating effects and that centers responsiveness to problems stemming from gentrification processes and dynamics as a theological or moral imperat…
Seeking the Peace: Anti-Gun Violence Cadres, Concepts, and Connections in Pittsburgh
Black Religion and Reparations: Pragmatic Trajectories and Widening Support
This article examines reparations advocacy by a vanguard of African American faith leader proponents, from Bishop Henry McNeil Turner's late-19th century demands for federal payments toward emigrationism and Black Atlantic linkages, to 21st century Black clergy involvements in national level, local level, and sector-specific reparations policy activism. Attention is paid to evolving theoretical and operational framings of this reparations advocac…
The Diminished Public, and Black Christian Promotion of American Civic Ideals
Black public activism has been guided largely by black affinities toward the U.S. Constitution, including its core democratic liberalist premises. This range of constitutionally defined political possibilities has both animated (and confined) a sense of public imagination and agency for many black Christians. Divergences and convergences between black religion-based public confidence and dissent are examined here, with reference to three paradigm…
South Sudan’s Costly Conflict and the Urgent Role of Religious Leaders
In 2013, two years after South Sudan’s formation as the world’s newest nation, a costly civil war erupted that has ensnared the South Sudanese people and the nation’s developmental and consolidation process for more than five years. The article explores the current conflict against its historical backdrop, proposing a greater role for religious leaders in the peace and reconciliation processes. It draws upon original interview data generated in 2…
Religion, Race, and the Making of American Global Citizens
Several pioneering African American leaders challenged inherent religious and racial limitations in historic American exceptionalism and American foreign policy. Operating in a 20th-century context that included anti-colonial fervor and the secularization of global voluntary service, they pursued an American global engagement that allowed racial and religious identity to serve as a bridge rather than a barrier. These leaders, many of whom were cl…
Beginnings and Legacies of African American Global Service: An Introduction to the Spring 2012 Issue
An introduction to the Spring 2012 (Volume 10, Number 1) issue of The Review of Faith & International Affairs, a special issue on the theme, “Religion and African American Leadership in Global Volunteerism.” Both the Peace Corps and Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) recently celebrated 50th anniversaries, and this theme issue explores how these organizations formalized models of global service and citizen diplomacy that have significantly advance…
African Pilgrimage and American Social Identity
The author led Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) student volunteers to Lesotho and South Africa in 1983, and then co-led a group of student volunteers in Sierra Leone in 1984. He returned in 1985 and 1986 as OCA's Africa Program Deputy Director. The author realized how his commitment to service and social bridge building was tied to his American social identity, and various encounters with Africans revealed that they viewed him primarily as a rep…
Introduction: Christianity and Conflict in Africa
Christianity is growing faster in sub‐Saharan Africa than anywhere in the world, and African churches have varied in their ability to respond effectively to hopes for peace and restoration within conflict and post‐conflict situations on the continent. Churches are important institutions within Africa’s characteristically weak civil society sector; their moral and social capital has contributed to the mediation of hostilities and movement toward p…
Black Denominational Responses to U.S.-MIDDLE East Policy Since 9/11
Although black denominational officials have voiced opinions on post-9/11 U.S.-Middle East relations, several barriers to visibility and effectiveness have hindered the prominence of these views. It is plausible that, by possibly shunning the black religious community's voice because of its often critical stances toward international U.S. policies, post-9/11 media coverage partly accounts for this hindrance. However, it is more likely that intern…
Balancing Faith-Based Strategies in U.S.-Africa Policy
Domestic and foreign policy collaborations between the faith sector and the federal government on social programming have increased, especially through President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). As U.S. policymakers emphasize social service provision, however, they give less funding to faith-based programs in conflict resolution, peacemaking, civic awareness, democratic reform, or social change—all of which are highly relevant to U…
Guest Editor's Introduction
In the aftermath of 9/11, U.S.-Middle East and Christian-Muslim relations became radically complicated and precarious. Yet, substantial external and internal barriers to black religious voice and visibility on U.S.-Middle East affairs caused AfricanAmerican church leaders to appear surprisingly quiet on these subjects, even in the midst of great unrest in many Islamic regions. The Spring 2008 issue of The Review of Faith & International Affairs p…
Congregations in Low-Income Neighborhoods and the Implications for Social Welfare Policy Research
Social scientists have an abundance of information about congregations to inform religion and social welfare policy discussions in the United States. But their data tend to come from congregations located outside low-income neighborhoods, not congregations inside them. This may limit their ability to make definitive claims, especially to policy makers, about social welfare practices and the potential of congregations located in low-income neighbo…
Churches and the Urban Poor: Interaction and Social Distance
Although the social isolation of the urban poor has been well documented, the analysis has only alluded to, and rarely detailed, the isolation of the urban poor from churches and other religious institutions. This article outlines findings from survey research conducted in three low-income housing complexes in Indianapolis, focusing on the extent to which the housing complex residents had been contacted by churches, had attended churches, and had…
African American Protestants, Political Activism, and “Liberal” Redemptive Hopes
Black Clergy, Electoral Participation, and Interest Representation
Coronal deviation and tilt in the proximal interphalangeal joints of man
Aging Medicine is an open access journal for international collaboration in multiple research disciplines across the aging sciences. The American Journal of Biological Anthropology is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more
Churches and the Urban Poor: Interaction and Social Distance
Although the social isolation of the urban poor has been well documented, the analysis has only alluded to, and rarely detailed, the isolation of the urban poor from churches and other religious institutions. This article outlines findings from survey research conducted in three low-income housing complexes in Indianapolis, focusing on the extent to which the housing complex residents had been contacted by churches, had attended churches, and had…
South Sudan’s Costly Conflict and the Urgent Role of Religious Leaders
In 2013, two years after South Sudan’s formation as the world’s newest nation, a costly civil war erupted that has ensnared the South Sudanese people and the nation’s developmental and consolidation process for more than five years. The article explores the current conflict against its historical backdrop, proposing a greater role for religious leaders in the peace and reconciliation processes. It draws upon original interview data generated in 2…
Coronal deviation and tilt in the proximal interphalangeal joints of man
Aging Medicine is an open access journal for international collaboration in multiple research disciplines across the aging sciences. The American Journal of Biological Anthropology is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more
Black Clergy, Electoral Participation, and Interest Representation
African American Protestants, Political Activism, and “Liberal” Redemptive Hopes
Churches and the Urban Poor: Interaction and Social Distance
Although the social isolation of the urban poor has been well documented, the analysis has only alluded to, and rarely detailed, the isolation of the urban poor from churches and other religious institutions. This article outlines findings from survey research conducted in three low-income housing complexes in Indianapolis, focusing on the extent to which the housing complex residents had been contacted by churches, had attended churches, and had…
Congregations in Low-Income Neighborhoods and the Implications for Social Welfare Policy Research
Social scientists have an abundance of information about congregations to inform religion and social welfare policy discussions in the United States. But their data tend to come from congregations located outside low-income neighborhoods, not congregations inside them. This may limit their ability to make definitive claims, especially to policy makers, about social welfare practices and the potential of congregations located in low-income neighbo…
Black Denominational Responses to U.S.-MIDDLE East Policy Since 9/11
Although black denominational officials have voiced opinions on post-9/11 U.S.-Middle East relations, several barriers to visibility and effectiveness have hindered the prominence of these views. It is plausible that, by possibly shunning the black religious community's voice because of its often critical stances toward international U.S. policies, post-9/11 media coverage partly accounts for this hindrance. However, it is more likely that intern…
Balancing Faith-Based Strategies in U.S.-Africa Policy
Domestic and foreign policy collaborations between the faith sector and the federal government on social programming have increased, especially through President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). As U.S. policymakers emphasize social service provision, however, they give less funding to faith-based programs in conflict resolution, peacemaking, civic awareness, democratic reform, or social change—all of which are highly relevant to U…
Guest Editor's Introduction
In the aftermath of 9/11, U.S.-Middle East and Christian-Muslim relations became radically complicated and precarious. Yet, substantial external and internal barriers to black religious voice and visibility on U.S.-Middle East affairs caused AfricanAmerican church leaders to appear surprisingly quiet on these subjects, even in the midst of great unrest in many Islamic regions. The Spring 2008 issue of The Review of Faith & International Affairs p…
Introduction: Christianity and Conflict in Africa
Christianity is growing faster in sub‐Saharan Africa than anywhere in the world, and African churches have varied in their ability to respond effectively to hopes for peace and restoration within conflict and post‐conflict situations on the continent. Churches are important institutions within Africa’s characteristically weak civil society sector; their moral and social capital has contributed to the mediation of hostilities and movement toward p…
Religion, Race, and the Making of American Global Citizens
Several pioneering African American leaders challenged inherent religious and racial limitations in historic American exceptionalism and American foreign policy. Operating in a 20th-century context that included anti-colonial fervor and the secularization of global voluntary service, they pursued an American global engagement that allowed racial and religious identity to serve as a bridge rather than a barrier. These leaders, many of whom were cl…
Beginnings and Legacies of African American Global Service: An Introduction to the Spring 2012 Issue
An introduction to the Spring 2012 (Volume 10, Number 1) issue of The Review of Faith & International Affairs, a special issue on the theme, “Religion and African American Leadership in Global Volunteerism.” Both the Peace Corps and Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) recently celebrated 50th anniversaries, and this theme issue explores how these organizations formalized models of global service and citizen diplomacy that have significantly advance…
African Pilgrimage and American Social Identity
The author led Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) student volunteers to Lesotho and South Africa in 1983, and then co-led a group of student volunteers in Sierra Leone in 1984. He returned in 1985 and 1986 as OCA's Africa Program Deputy Director. The author realized how his commitment to service and social bridge building was tied to his American social identity, and various encounters with Africans revealed that they viewed him primarily as a rep…
South Sudan’s Costly Conflict and the Urgent Role of Religious Leaders
In 2013, two years after South Sudan’s formation as the world’s newest nation, a costly civil war erupted that has ensnared the South Sudanese people and the nation’s developmental and consolidation process for more than five years. The article explores the current conflict against its historical backdrop, proposing a greater role for religious leaders in the peace and reconciliation processes. It draws upon original interview data generated in 2…
The Diminished Public, and Black Christian Promotion of American Civic Ideals
Black public activism has been guided largely by black affinities toward the U.S. Constitution, including its core democratic liberalist premises. This range of constitutionally defined political possibilities has both animated (and confined) a sense of public imagination and agency for many black Christians. Divergences and convergences between black religion-based public confidence and dissent are examined here, with reference to three paradigm…
Black Religion and Reparations: Pragmatic Trajectories and Widening Support
This article examines reparations advocacy by a vanguard of African American faith leader proponents, from Bishop Henry McNeil Turner's late-19th century demands for federal payments toward emigrationism and Black Atlantic linkages, to 21st century Black clergy involvements in national level, local level, and sector-specific reparations policy activism. Attention is paid to evolving theoretical and operational framings of this reparations advocac…
Things Unseen”: Urban (Dis)placement, Sacred Sensibilities, and Theological Vantage Points
This article explores the ways in which academic institutions in Pittsburgh have positioned themselves around local gentrification dynamics. It pays particular attention to academic facilitations of community-oriented analysis and engagement that attempts to counter gentrification's deformative and deracinating effects and that centers responsiveness to problems stemming from gentrification processes and dynamics as a theological or moral imperat…
Seeking the Peace: Anti-Gun Violence Cadres, Concepts, and Connections in Pittsburgh
Black Neighborhood Hauntings: Cultural Erasure, Material Remnants, and Latent Memory
This article focuses on conflicts over appropriated black residential and cultural land spaces in downtown Indianapolis and on tensions over competing narrations and conceptualizations of the historical meanings of these neighborhood formations and re-formations. The analysis pays particular attention to ways material remnants of historic black buildings in the District retain memory of and impart truths about previously constructed black worlds,…
A Place Not Made by Hands: Unsteady Formations of Nationalist Religiosities in Malawi
This article focuses on the Christian ecclesiastical footing and moorings of nationalist thought and pursuits within colonial Nyasaland and its postindependence iteration as the nation of Malawi. Attention is paid to foundational influences and the impact of European mission churches, beginning in the late 1800s, and three streams of American Christianity that influenced social development in Malawi: (1) historic African American Methodist and Ba…
Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (11 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (11 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works)