The Reverend Dennis C. Dickerson, Ph.D., is a productive scholar who has written extensively about the African American experience and on the history and theology of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His publications include the following...

Books:

• OUT OF THE CRUCIBLE: BLACK STEELWORKERS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, 1875-1980, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1986
• RELIGION, RACE, AND REGION: RESEARCH NOTES ON A.M.E. CHURCH HISTORY, Nashville, A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 1995
• MILITANT MEDIATOR: WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR., Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1998
• A LIBERATED PAST: EXPLORATIONS IN A.M.E. CHURCH HISTORY, Nashville, A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 2003
• AFRICAN METHODISM AND ITS WESLEYAN HERITAGE: REFLECTIONS ON A.M.E. CHURCH HISTORY, Nashville, A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 2009
• AFRICAN AMERICAN PREACHERS AND POLITICS: THE CAREYS OF CHICAGO, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2010

Pamphlets:

• THE PAST IS IN YOUR HANDS: WRITING LOCAL A.M.E. CHURCH HISTORY, Williamstown, Massachusetts, The McClelland Press, 1989, 2008
• THE HISTORIOGRAPHERS OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Nashville, A.M.E. Sunday School Union, 1993

Select Contributions to Anthologies:

• THE BLACKWELL DICTIONARY OF EVANGELICAL BIOGRAPHY, Donald M. Lewis, Ed.1995
• POPULAR RELIGIOUS MAGAZINES OF THE UNITED STATES, (co-author), Mark Fackler & Charles H. Lippy, Eds. 1995
• HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF METHODISM, Charles Yrigoyen & Susan Warrick, Eds., 1996
• ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PROTESTANTISM, Hans Hillerbrand, Ed., 2004
• SING THEM OVER TO ME AGAIN: HYMNS AND HYMNBOOKS IN AMERICA, Mark A. Noll & Edith Blumhofer, Eds., 2006
• THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO JOHN WESLEY, Randy L. Maddox & Jason E. Vickers, Eds., 2010
• ALDERSGATE TO AZUSA STREET: WESLEYAN, HOLINESS & PENTECOSTAL VISIONS OF THE NEW HUMANITY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, Henry H. Knight, Ed., 2010

Select Articles:

• Dr. Dickerson has contributed prolifically to several scholarly journals including METHODIST HISTORY, JOURNAL OF PRESBYTERIAN HISTORY, JOURNAL OF UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST HISTORY, THE EVANGELICAL JOURNAL, CHURCH HISTORY, and the PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHARLES WESLEY SOCIETY. Dr. Dickerson also has served as Editor of the A.M.E. CHURCH REVIEW and has written articles for every issue. Some of the articles with broad impact are...
• “The Black Church in Industrializing Western Pennsylvania, 1870-1950,” WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, October 1981, 64, (4), pp. 329-344
• “Black Ecumenism: Efforts to Establish a United Methodist Episcopal Church, 1918-1932,” CHURCH HISTORY, December 1983, 52, (4), pp. 479-491
• “African American Religious Intellectuals and the Theological Foundations of the Civil Rights Movement, 1930-1955,” CHURCH HISTORY, June 2005, 74, (2), pp. 217-235
• “Toward a Theology of African Methodism: A Conversation with Wesley’s Theology,” A.M.E. CHURCH REVIEW, January-March 2006, CXXII, (401), pp. 38-53
• “Theologizing Rosa Parks,” A.M.E. CHURCH REVIEW, July-September 2008, CXXIV, (411), pp. 29-37

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