Donald Henry Matthews

Background

Donald Matthews was born in 1952 in the United States.

Education

Donald H. Matthews studied at Northwestern University where he received a Master of Arts degree. He also attended the University of Chicago Divinity School and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Religion and Human Science in 1992.

Career

Donald H. Matthews worked as a visiting assistant professor of African and Afro-American studies in arts and sciences at Washington University. He also was an associate professor of religious studies and coordinator of the Master of Divinity Program at Naropa University in Boulder. He has taught at several theological seminaries and universities and completed a clinical residency as a chaplain for persons in emotional and physical crisis.

Donald H. Matthews wrote his first book Honoring the Ancestors: An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature in 1998. Later he published such books as Can This Church Live? and Sexual Abuse of Power in the Black Church. His latest book Pastor or Pimp? was published in 2016.

Achievements

• Donald H. Matthews is an American educator and writer who is famous for his books Sexual Abuse of Power in the Black Church and Honoring the Ancestors.

Works

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  • Honoring the Ancestors: An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature

    (This book poses a challenge to end the battle between Afr...)

    1998
  • Pastor or Pimp?

    (This book examines the economic and sexual abuse perpetra...)

    2016
  • Sexual Abuse of Power in the Black Church: Sexual Misconduct in the African American Churches

    (This book deals specifically with the topic of the sexual...)

    2012
  • Can This Church Live?: A Congregation, Its Neighborhood, and Social Transformation 2004