Background
Mitchell, Mozella Gordon was born on August 14, 1936 in Starkville, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of John Thomas and Odena Mae (Graham) Gordon.
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Crucial Issues in Caribbean Religions Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Studies in Religion, Culture, and Social Development by Mozella G. Mitchell Peter Lang Publishing,2006 Paperback
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Crucial Issues in Caribbean Religions concentrates on the effects of intersections in the Caribbean of major world religions such as Christianity (both Catholicism and Protestantism), Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, with indigenous religions such as Caribs and Arawaks, and African-derived religions such as Lucumi (Yoruba/Santeria/Regla de Ocha), Regla de Palo, Vodun, Obeah, Rastafari, Orisa, or Shango in Trinidad. Closely examined are the social and economic problems and issues of exile, slavery, oppression, racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, cultural dominance, religious diversity, syncretism, popular religiosity, religious and spiritual imperialism, continuity and change, survival techniques in the face of attempts at eradication by religious powers, interreligious dialogue, and the quest for universal spirituality.
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Mitchell, Mozella Gordon was born on August 14, 1936 in Starkville, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of John Thomas and Odena Mae (Graham) Gordon.
AB, Le Moyne College College, 1959. Master of Arts in English, University Michigan, 1963. Master of Arts in Religious Studies, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, 1973.
Doctor of Philosophy, Emory University, 1980.
Instructor in English and Speech Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, Lorman, Mississippi, 1960-1961. Instructor English, chairman department Owen Junior College, Memphis, 1961-1965. Assistant professor English and religion Norfolk State College University Norfolk, Virginia, 1965—1981.
Associate professor University South Florida, Tampa, 1981—1993, professor, since 1993, chairman-elect religious studies department, since 2005, chair religious studies department, since 2006. Pastor Mount Sinai African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1982—1989. Presiding elder Tampa district African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, since 1988.
Pastor, founder Love of Christ African Methodist Episcopal Zion Tabernacle, Branden, since 1993. Candidate for bishop African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 2003—2004, presiding Elder, 1998—2004. Visiting associate professor Hood Theological Seminary, Salisbury, North Carolina, 1979-1980, St. Louis University, 1992-1993.
Visiting assistant lecturer University Rochester, New York, 1972-1973. Co-director Ghent Volunteers in Service to America Project, Norfolk, 1969-1971. Consultant Black Women and Ministry Interdenominational Theological Ctr.
Lecturer Florida Humanities Council, 1994-1995. Memorial lecturer Mordecai Johnson Institute, Colgate Rochester Division School, 1997.
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Member Tampa-Hillsborough County Human Relations Council, since 1987. Founder Women at the Well, Inc. Delegate 7th assembly World Council Churches, Canberra, Australia, 1991, 17th World Methodist Council, Rio de Janiero, 1996.
Delegate 18th World Methodist Council, Brighton, England, 2001. Member connectional council African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Charlotte, since 1984, staff writer Sunday school literature, since 1981, member judicial council, candidate for bishop, 2002—2004. President Florida Council Churches, Orlando, Florida, 1988—1990, president-elect, since 1998, president executive board, 2000.
Member College Theology Society, American Academy Religion, Society for the Study of Black Religion (president 1992-1996), Joint Center for Political Studies, Black Women in Church and Society, Alpha Kappa Alpha. Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Edrick R. Woodson, March 20, 1951 (divorced 1974). Children: Cynthia LaVern, Marcia Delores Woodson Miller.