Faculty Biography
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Name: James Jones
Title: Chair of World Religions, Professor of African American Studies
Department: World Religions, African Studies
Building: Reid
Room: 410
Phone: 914-323-5134
Email: jonesj@mville.edu
Degrees:
Ph.D. of Ministry in Christian-Muslim Relations, Hartford Seminary
MA in Religion, Yale University Divinity School
BS in Education, Hampton University
Dr. Jimmy Jones has been teaching at Manhattanville for 17 years and was the first Chairperson of African Studies at the College. "I enjoy teaching classes that bridge the disciplines between World Religions and African American Studies," he said. "For example, I am starting a new course this semester called 'Religious Philosophy and Martin Luther King' which looks at the history of the Civil Rights movement and how it was impacted by religion."
Professor Jones is active in a number of interfaith efforts in the United States. These efforts include: President's University Council-Religious and Spiritual Life at Yale University; Advisory Board of Hartford Seminary's Duncan Macdonald Center for the study of Islam and Christian Muslim Relations; a project for creating models of interfaith community conflict resolution co sponsored by Fuller Theological Seminary and the Salam Peace and Justice Institute and; a founder and co-coordinator of the Manhattanville College Middle East Forum, an effort that convenes action-oriented private conversations between national Jewish and Muslim leaders.
Internationally, Dr. Jones has lectured at, taught in or consulted to institutions in Bahrain, Bermuda, Egypt, Jerusalem, Trinidad-Tobago, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Over the last three decades, much of his personal and professional work has been focused on conflict resolution within families, communities, and across national and cultural boundaries. His most recent publication is "Somebody's Going to Pay" a chapter in the book First Impressions: American Muslim Perspectives on the 9/11 Commission Report (2004), a volume for which he served as a consulting editor. Dr. Jones earned his Doctorate of Ministry in Christian-Muslim Relations from Hartford Seminary, a Masters in Religion from Yale University Divinity School and a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education (History) from Hampton University. He is also a visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (Ashburn VA.).
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