Blog of NABPR

General – Note

Midsummer Update

The NABPR expresses appreciation to Gardner-Webb University for hosting the 2023 May Meeting in Boiling Springs, NC. All sessions, plenaries, and meals were held in a single building, the Tucker Student Union, which was tremendously convenient. One highlight from this year's meeting was the presentation of the Perspectives in Religious Studies Festschrift to Dr. Sharyn Dowd. We were grateful for her presence, her long record of support for the NABPR and Baptist higher education, and her inspiring remarks at the meeting. Read More ›

conference – May Meeting

2023 Annual NABPR Meeting

Gardner-Webb University, May 22-24, 2023 in Boiling Springs, NC Read More ›

Books of Interest – New Book

Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead

Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the U.S. to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns." Read More ›

Books of Interest – New Book

Storied Witness: The Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19th-Century America

The voices of Black women have historically been silenced, especially in theological and religious contexts. Read More ›

jobs – jobs

Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Central Seminary

"Reporting to the President, and serving on the President’s Leadership Team, the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty (VPAA) serves as the seminary’s primary academic officer, providing vision and leadership in directing and overseeing the work of all faculty and academic activities that are consistent with Central Seminary’s mission, vision, unique value proposition, and the 2022-2024 strategic and culture plans." Read More ›

Sidebar

The National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion is a community of teaching scholars. Most members teach at Baptist-affiliated schools, colleges, and seminaries, but members also hail from a wide range of institutions in the United States, Canada, and abroad, including church-related and state-supported schools. The history of the association is woven into the changing religious culture of the United States…The immediate predecessor of the NABPR was a group of Baptist teaching scholars in the Southeast who, in 1972 founded a journal, Perspectives in Religious Studies, laying a foundation of publications that continues to identify the work of the Association. About ›

New Book from Perspectives on Baptist Identities: Sources of Light: Resources for Baptist Churches Practicing Theology edited by Amy L. Chilton and Steven R. Harmon.