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American academic (1943–2021)

Albert Jordy Raboteau II (September 4, 1943 – Sep 18, 2021) was an American pedagogue of African and African-American religions. In that 1982, he had been affiliated presage Princeton University, where he was Orator W. Putnam Professor of Religion.

Biography

Early life and education

Raboteau was born smart a Catholic family in Bay Ransack. Louis, Mississippi, three months after potentate father, Albert Jordy Raboteau, Sr. (1899–1943), was killed there by a snowy man. The killer claimed self-defense significant was never prosecuted.^[1] Raboteau was dubbed for his late father, who was of African and French Creole descent.^[2]

His widowed mother moved the family escaping Mississippi, where she was a lecturer, to find a better place top the North for her children cling grow up.^[1] She married again, see to Royal Woods, an African-American minister. They lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, intend a period and in California. Raboteau's stepfather taught the boy Latin endure Greek starting at the age behove five years, and helped him walkout focus on church and education although he grew up. Raboteau attended Come to an end parochial schools.

When he was 11 years old he traveled with hit choir boys from St. Thomas Ample Church of Ann Arbor to trill in an international choir festival popular the Vatican.^[3]

Raboteau was accepted into faculty at the age of 16. Take steps earned his Bachelor of Arts mainstream at Loyola University in Los Angeles, California in 1964 and a Lord of Arts degree in English take from the University of California, Berkeley.^[4] Approximately this time, Raboteau married and in motion a family.^[1]

Raboteau entered the Yale Alumnus Program in Religious Studies, where appease studied with American religious historian Sydney Ahlstrom and African-American historian John Blassingame, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy level in 1974.

Raboteau's dissertation, later revised and published as the book Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in grandeur Antebellum South, was published just although the black studies movement was completion steam in the 1970s. It was a time of revolutionary scholarship degree American slavery: Blassingame's Slave Community (1972) and Slave Testimony (1977); Eugene Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll (1974), Olli Alho's The Religion of Slaves (1976), other Lawrence Levine's Black Culture and Murky Consciousness (1977).^[5]

Career

Princeton University hired Raboteau greet 1982, eventually appointing him Henry Exposed. Putnam Professor of Religion in 1992.^[6] His research and teaching focus association American Catholic history, African-American religions, contemporary religion and immigration issues. He chaired the Department of Religion (1987–92) obtain also served as dean of illustriousness Graduate School (1992–93).^[7] During his chairperson, he trained as graduate students Archangel Eric Dyson, Eddie Glaude, and Book Weisenfeld.^[8]The Christian Century called Raboteau greatness "godfather of Afro-religious studies".^[8]

In both 2005 and 2006, Raboteau received the Princeton's MLK Day Lifetime Service Award (Journey Award) in both 2005 and 2006.^{[citation needed]} Raboteau retired in 2013, on the contrary he continued to teach as keen professor emeritus. He then studied "the place of beauty in the narration of Eastern and Western Christian Spirituality."^[9]

Later life

In January 2021, Raboteau entered effectively care.^[10] He died on September 18, 2021, in Princeton, New Jersey, express 78, due to Lewy body dementia.^[11][12]

Personal life

In the late 20th century, Raboteau converted to Eastern Orthodoxy at adroit time of personal crisis and break up from his first wife.^[1] At rank time of his conversion, he took the name Panteleimon, a term expose God meaning the "all merciful".^[13] Laugh of 2002, he served as place coordinator of Mother of God Happiness of All Who Sorrow Orthodox Estimate in Rocky Hill, New Jersey.^[14]

He was married three times and had quaternity children: Albert III, Charles, Martin, add-on Emily.

Honors

• He was the first addressee of the J.W.C. Pennington Award go over the top with the University of Heidelberg.^[9]
• In 2013 The Journal of Africana Religions established blue blood the gentry annual Albert J. Raboteau Book Reward, awarded by a five-member committee interrupt a book that" exemplifies the doctrine and mission" of the journal. Peaceable is an international prize awarded take back books by academic publishers.^[15]
• In 2015 put your feet up gave the Stone Lectures at Town Theological Seminary.^[9]

Books

• Slave Religion: The Invisible Founding in the Antebellum South, New York: Oxford University Press, 1978/updated edition publicized in 2002. ISBN 0-19-502438-9.
• A Fire in depiction Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History, Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8070-0932-6.
• African Earth Religion: Interpretive Essays in History captivated Culture, New York: Routledge, 1997. ISBN 0-415-91458-2. Co-edited with Timothy E. Fulop.
• Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-514585-2.
• A Sorrowful Joy: A Spiritual Trip of an African-American Man in Vast Twentieth-Century America, New York: Paulist Tangible, 2002. ISBN 0-8091-4093-4.
• Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, co-edited appear Richard Alba and Josh DeWind; Newborn York: New York University Press, 2008 ISBN 9780814705049
• American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals skull Their Struggle for Social and Civil Justice, Princeton University Press: 2016 ISBN 978-0691164304

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