Emilie M. Townes papers, 1960 -- 2022

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Series 3: Courses and career, 1988 -- 2015

This series contains some restricted material. Restrictions related to specific material are listed in the detailed contents list.

3.75 linear feet; 3.75 linear feet; 7 boxes

This series contains print outs of course materials stored on computer discs from courses taught at Saint Paul School of Theology and Union Theological Seminary, as well as student records, and lectures and correspondence resulting from the interview process for positions at divinity schools.

This series is arranged roughly chronologically.



Box Series 3 Box 1 Folder 1-6 Social Thought and Moral Community, 1991


Box Series 3 Box 1 Folder 7-16 Black Church and Feminism, 1992 -- 1998


Box Series 3 Box 1 Folder 17-21 Ministry-Self, Society and Church, 1992


Box Series 3 Box 1 Folder 22-25 Ministry-Self, Society and Church-Lectures 1-5, 1996



Box Series 3 Box 2 Folder 1-5 Voices of Protest - Songs of Hope, 1996


Box Series 3 Box 2 Folder 6-8 Readings in African American Church-Lectures 1-8, 1993


Box Series 3 Box 2 Folder 9-13 African American Critical Religious Thought,, 1996 -- 1999


Box Series 3 Box 2 Folder 14-21 Diakonia-Social Thought and Moral Community in Church, 1993 -- 1995



Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 1-4 Reconciliation-Race, Gender and Class, 1994 -- 1997


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 5-8 Didache- Issues of Authority in the Church, 1994 -- 1999


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 9-15 Christian Ethics and Moral Values, 1995 -- 1998


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 16-18 Feminist and Womanist Ethics, 1995


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 19 What's in a Text? Formative texts in Christian Ethics, 1996


Box Series 3 Box 3 Folder 20-25 Diakonia - Social Thought and Moral Community in the Church, 1996



Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 1-4 Church as Caring and Reconciling Community, 1997


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 5-8 Voices of Protest-Songs of Hope, 1998


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 9 Interview: Associate Professor, St. Paul School of Theology, "An Immediate Response Will Not Do", 1988


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 10 Interview: Assoc. Professor of Christian Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, "Comprehending Absurd Metaphors and Transforming Fragmented Communities", 1998


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 11 Interview: Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Social Ethics, Boston Univ. School of Theology, "Searching for Paradise in a World of Theme Parks", 1998


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 12-13 Interview: Professor of African-American Religious Studies, Harvard Divinity School, "Aunt Jemima as Counter-Memory" and "6 Drafts-Moral Considerations of Identity and Commodity or, Who Stole My Flapjacks?", 2002


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 14 Interview: Women's Study in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School, 2001 -- 2002


Box Series 3 Box 4 Folder 15-17 Interview: Professor of African American Studies in Religion and Theology, Yale Divinity School, "Aunt Jemima as Counter Memory-Ethical Reflections on Identity as Property or Who Stole My Flapjacks?", 2005



Box Series 3 Box 5 Student records, 1992 -- 1999

This file is restricted by FERPA Legislation for 95 years following the latest dated item in the file.



Box Series 3 Box 6 Student records and floppy disks 460-474, 1995 -- 1998

This file is restricted by FERPA Legislation for 95 years following the latest dated item in the file.



Box RC5 Courses and career , 1992 -- 2015

This file contains one folder (marked) that is FERPA restricted.