Julius Bailey Ph.D.
H. Eugene Farlough-California Chair in African-American Christianity, Religious Studies
San Francisco Theological Seminary, Faculty Experts
About
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 an 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.
Education
- 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."
Areas of Expertise
- African American religious history
- AME Church history
- Church history
- New religious movements
- Race and ethnic issues
- Religion in America
- Religion in the American West
Publications
Books
- Bailey, Julius. Down in the Valley: An Introduction to African American Religious History. Fortress Press, 2016.
- Bailey, Julius. Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. University of Tennessee Press, 2012.
- Bailey, Julius. Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865–1900. University Press of Florida, 2005.
Articles and Book Chapters
- Bailey, Julius. "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.
- Bailey, Julius. "'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.
- Bailey, Julius. "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.
- Bailey, Julius. "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.
- Bailey, Julius. "Fearing Hate: Re-Examining the Media Coverage of the Christian Identity Movement." Journal for the Study of Radicalism 4, no. 1 (spring 2010): 55–73.
- Bailey, Julius. "'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 36, no. 1 (February 2007): 7–10.
- Bailey, Julius. "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 74, no. 2 (June 2006): 302–323.
Encyclopedia Entries
- Bailey, Julius. "Eric B. & Rakim." Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History. Facts on File, 2010.
- Bailey, Julius. "Father Divine." Encyclopedia of African American History. ABC-CLIO, 2010.
- Bailey, Julius. "Heaven's Gate." American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History. M.E. Sharpe, 2008.
- Bailey, Julius. "Rebecca Steward." African American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Bailey, Julius. "Ancestor Worship" and "African Methodist Episcopal Church." Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. ABC-CLIO, 2008.
- Bailey, Julius. "African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church." Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, vol. 1. Greenwood Press, 2007.
- Bailey, Julius. "Benjamin T. Tanner," "Theophilus Gould Steward," and "Henry McNeal Turner." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Greenwood Press, 2005.
- Bailey, Julius. "Pastor's Wife." Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism. Routledge, 2001.
- Bailey, Julius. "Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist Episcopal Church," "Black Methodists for Church Renewal," "National Conference of Black Churchmen," and "Fraternal Council of Negro Churches." Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations. Routledge, 2001.
- Bailey, Julius. "New Faiths to North Carolina: Islam." Tar Heel Junior Historian, spring 1998.
Book Reviews
- Review of Sylvester A. Johnson, African American Religions, 1500–2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2015). The American Historical Review 121, no. 4 (2016): 1300–1301.
- Review of Calvin White Jr., The Rise of Respectability: Race, Religion, and the Church of God in Christ (University of Arkansas Press, 2012). The Journal of Southern History, February 2014.
- Review of Susan Palmer, The Nuwaubian Nation: Black Spirituality and State Control (Ashgate, 2010). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 16, no. 4 (2013): 152–154.
- Review of J. Gordon Melton, A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). Journal of American History, March 2008.
- Review of Carolyn M. Jones and Theodore Louis Trost, eds., Teaching African American Religions (Oxford University Press, 2005). Teaching Theology and Religion 11, no. 1 (2008): 60–61.
- Review of Sally Gregory McMillen, To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865–1915 (Louisiana State University Press, 2002). AME Church Review, 2003.
- Review of Paul Harvey, Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, 1865–1925 (University of North Carolina Press, 1997). Koinonia, fall 1998.
Presentations
AME Church History and Print Culture
- "Competing for California: Contested Religious Space Among Nineteenth-Century Black Churches." Western History Association. San Diego, November 2017
- "Sacralizing the Land: The Nineteenth-Century Expansion of the AME Church in the American West." American Academy of Religion. San Antonio, Texas, November 2016
- "Nineteenth-Century Black Print Culture and the American Bible Society." American Academy of Religion. San Antonio, Texas, November 2016
- "Polygamists or What Not, One Wife or Forty: Ambivalent Attitudes Toward Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century AME Church Print Culture." American Academy of Religion. Baltimore, November 2013
- "Historical Narrative in the AME Church." Loma Linda University. Loma Linda, California, April 2012
- "Should 'African' Remain in Our Title?: Responses to Darwinism in the Nineteenth-Century AME Church." American Society of Church History. San Diego, January 2010
- "Should 'African' Remain in Our Title?: The Americanization of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1868–1884." National Association of African American Studies. Baton Rouge, February 2008
- "Imagining the American West: Benjamin T. Tanner and the Politics of Racial Destiny in the AME Church." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. San Diego, November 2007
- "'That Hardy Race of Pioneers': Constructions of Race and Masculinity in AME Church Histories, 1865–1900." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, November 2005
- "Benjamin T. Tanner and the Creation of the AME Church Newspaper the Child's Recorder, 1868–1884." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada, November 2002
- "Sculpting the Future: Nineteenth-Century African Methodist Episcopal Church Histories." Indiana Association of Historians 20th Annual Meeting. New Harmony, Indiana, March 2000
Race, Religion, and Identity
- "Public Opinion, Social Issues, and the African American Religious Press." Johannes Gutenberg University. Mainz, Germany, November 2014
- "Defending the Faith from Darwin: Evolutionary Theory in the Nineteenth-Century Black Church." National Association of African American Studies. Baton Rouge, February 2009
- Chair, "Diasporic Networks" Session. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2008
- "'Too Light to Lead': Daniel Coker and Racial Liminality in the Early African Methodist Episcopal Church." Biennial Boston College Conference on the History of Religion "Religious Identities." Boston, March 2008
- "Religion and the Moral Dilemma in the Slave/Master Relationship." 10th Annual Conference on African-American Culture and Experience. Greensboro, North Carolina, March 1999
- "Religion and Race in America: A Response to Michael Eric Dyson." 50th Anniversary Symposium, Religion and Society in the 21st Century: A View from the Public University. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 1998
New Religious Movements
- "Sacred Not Secret: Esoteric Knowledge in the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors." American Academy of Religion. San Diego, November 2014
- Gender and Family in African American Religious Life
- "Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Racial Dimensions of Motherhood." American Academy of Religion/Western Region. Whittier, California, March 2004
- "Around the Domestic Altar: Nineteenth-Century African-American Family Religious Life, 1865–1890." American Academy of Religion Southeastern Regional Meeting. Atlanta, March 2000
Pedagogy
- "Writing the Scholarship of Teaching" (workshop). American Academy of Religion. San Francisco, November 2011
- "Confronting Confusion: The Perils and Prospects of New Assignments." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Atlanta, November 2010
- "The Problem of 'We': Pedagogical Strategies for the Multicultural Classroom." 3rd Annual Celebration of Teaching Conference. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 1999
Awards and Service
Awards and Honors
- University of Redlands Faculty Award for Outstanding Research, 2006
- University of North Carolina Tanner Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1999
Grants and Fellowships
- The Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers, 2014–2015
- American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant, 2013
- Banta Center for Business Ethics and Society Research Grant, 2013
- Proposal Writing Faculty Fellow, 2013
- Dan and Sandra Bane Fellow, The Huntington Library, 2011
- John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Research Award (Charles Redd Center for Western Studies), 2011
- LENS Fellowship (GIS/Spatial Learning), 2011
- The Louisville Institute Summer Stipend, 2009
- University of Redlands Summer Faculty Research Grant, 2009
- Banta Center for Business Ethics and Society Research Grant, 2008
- American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant, 2007
- University of Redlands Summer Faculty Research Grant, 2007
- Young Scholars in American Religion Program, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, IUPUI, 2005–2006
- Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Summer Fellowship, 2006
- Wabash Center Workshop on Teaching and Learning for Pre-Tenure Faculty at Colleges and Universities, 2005–2006
- NEH Summer Seminar: "Roots: African Dimensions of the Early History and Cultures of the Americas," University of Virginia, 2005
- University of Redlands Summer Faculty Research Grant, 2005
- Kenyon College Dissertation Fellowship, 2000–2001
- Graduate Student Merit Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994–1997
Affiliations
- American Academy of Religion
- American Historical Association
- American Philosophical Association
- American Society of Church History
- American Studies Association
- National Association of African American Studies
- Organization of American Historians
- University of North Carolina Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars