Background
Long, Charles Houston was born on August 23, 1926 in Little Rock. Son of Samuel Preston and Diamond Geneva (Thompson) Long.
(Significations is a criticism of several major approaches...)
Significations is a criticism of several major approaches (phenomenological, historical, theological) to the study of religion in the United States, in which the author attempts (1) a reevaluation of some of the basic issues forming the study of religion in America, (2) an outline of a hermeneutics of conquest and colonialism generated during the formation of the social and symbolic order called the "New World," and (3) a critique of the categories of civil religion, innocence, and theology from the perspective of the black experience and the experience of colonized peoples.
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Long, Charles Houston was born on August 23, 1926 in Little Rock. Son of Samuel Preston and Diamond Geneva (Thompson) Long.
Diploma, Dunbar Junior College, 1946. Bachelor of Divinity, University Chicago, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1962.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Dickinson College, 1971.
Member faculty, University of Chicago, 1956-1974;
professor of history of religions, University of Chicago, 1971-1974;
member of faculty, University of Chicago Division School, 1956-1974;
professor, University of Chicago Division School, 1971-1974;
dean students, University of Chicago Division School, 1956-1960;
William Rand Kenan, Junior professor of history of religions, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974-1988;
also Board of Governors, U. North Carolina (U. North Carolina Press)
professor of history of religions, Duke U., 1974-1988;
Jeannette K. Watson professor of history of religions, Syracuse University, 1988-1991;
director humanities doctoral program, Syracuse University, 1988-1991;
professor department religious studies, director Research Center in Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1991. Director seminar National Endowment Humanities, summers 1977, 78, year 1979-1980. Board commissioner Association American Colls.
; Board of Governors U. North Carolina Press, 1975-1987.
(Significations is a criticism of several major approaches...)
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Member North Carolina Humanities Council. Board directors Fund for Theological Education Served with United States Army Air Force, 1944-1946. Member American Academy Religion (president 1973-1974), International Association Historians Religion, American Society Study Religion (founding member), Society Study Black Religion (founding member).
Married Alice Freeman, June 21, 1953. Children– John, Carolyn, Christopher, David.