Stephanie Y. Mitchem
Professor, Chair
Ph. D., Northwestern University, 1998
Theology
tel: (803) 777-3627, e-mail mitchesy@sc.edu
Stephanie Y. Mitchem accepted the position of Chair of Religious Studies in 2009 while continuing as Director of the African American Studies Program.
Dr. Mitchem has a commitment to liberatory educational practice. She teaches contemporary theology and women's studies, emphasizing the experiences and perspectives of black women.
Mitchem also works actively with the Women's and Gender Studies Program at USC.
Mitchem is contributing editor of Crosscurrents, a print and on-line journal and a global network for people of faith and intelligence who are committed to connecting the wisdom of the heart and the life of the mind, that bring people together across lines of difference.
She is also co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the publication of feminist scholarship in religion and a forum for discussion and dialogue among women and men of differing feminist perspectives..
She is author of African American Women Tapping Power and Spiritual Wellness, (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2004), Introducing Womanist Theology (Orbis Books, 2002), and numerous essays. Her most recent publications include: Faith, Health, and Healing Among African Americans, co-edited with Emilie M. Townes (Praeger 2008), and
African American Folk Healing (New York University Press) and Name It and Claim It? Prosperity Preaching and the Black Church (Cleveland:
Pilgrim Press) in 2007.
Summer 2006, Mitchem spent time doing research in Brazil at the Instituto de Educaçäo Teológica da Bahia (ITEBA). (Travel Photo-Journal)
COURSES
Religion and Culture
African American Religious Experiences
Religions in the African Diaspora
Women And Religion
Perspectives in Religious Studies
Liberation Theology
Christian Ethics
Constructing Theologies in the 21st Century
PUBLICATIONS:
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Currently Submitted & Under Review:
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Essay, "Black Religion and Health" entry for Encyclopedia of African American Religious Culture.
Essay, "Black American Women and the Gift of Embodied Spirituality" for volume
edited by Morny Joy.
In Print:
Chapters
"African American Women's Embodied Spirituality and Cassandra" in Women and the
Gift edited by Morny Joy (Indiana University Press)
"Finding Questions and Answers in Womanist Theology and Ethics," in
conference proceedings edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether (Fortress
Press).
"Religious Healing as Pedagogical Performance," in volume on teaching
religious healing, edited by Linda Barnes and Inez Talamentez (Oxford
University Press).
Books
Faith, Health, and Healing Among African Americans, co-edited with Emilie M.
Townes (Praeger 2008)
African American Folk Healing (New York University Press, 2007)
Name It and Claim It? Prosperity Preaching and the Black Church (Cleveland:
Pilgrim Press, 2007).
African American Women Tapping Power and Spiritual Wellness (Cleveland: Pilgrim
Press, 2004).
Introducing Womanist Theology, (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2002).
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GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Contemporary religious thought, with emphasis on feminist and anthropological/ethnographic methodologies
- Women in the African Diaspora.
- Postcolonialism, class, and African American religious thought and experience
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