Author of Urban Ministry: An Introduction (Abingdon, 2007) concerning the role of the church in the city, some of his other writings include Africentric Approaches to Christian Ministry co-edited with Marsha Snulligan Haney (University Press of America, 2006), Faith Is Health (Unit One):A Devotional Bible-Study Series on Health (Pneuma, 2006), an edited volume of Church School lessons for African American congregations and Faith Is Health (Unit Two): Empowering A Village in Crisis (Pneuma, 2007), edited with Jermaine McKinley; Christian Discipleship: A Seven-Session Bible Study for Men on the Gospel of Mark (Congregational Ministries Unit, PCUSA 1998), and “Is This New Wine? Resistance Among Black Presbyterians” in Ronald H. Stone and Robert L. Stivers (eds) Resistance and Theological Ethics (Roman and Littlefield, 2004).
Dr. Peters has taught courses in the area of Church and Ministry, including Urban Ministry, Church and Society, Christian Education, and Black Church history. Some of his more popular courses include Church and Society (Local), The Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., Readings in Howard Thurman, The Church and Economic Development, The Church and the Urban Family, Faith and Health in the African Urban Context, Theology and Urban Violence, and. Education for Survival and Success. Dr. Peters is an advisor on social justice policy for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and his work focuses on religion in the city with particular attention to issues of poverty, race, and gender. His recent research interests include analysis of the religious community’s response to urban youth violence, HIV/AIDS, and attention to children of the incarcerated and their families.
Dr. Peters’ international experience includes research on the role of religion and the development of urban civil society in Namibia and Botswana as a Fulbright Scholar. He has conducted workshops on urban leadership development in Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa and observed urban theological education programs in Switzerland, Singapore, Thailand, and the Republic of China. In August 2007, Dr. Peters led a group of 20 theological educators, seminarians, pastors, social work educators, and medical professionals to study the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa and also to Lusaka, Zambia for a Conference on Theology, HIV/AIDS, and Poverty in Africa.
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Dr. Peters received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern University, the Master of Divinity degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and the Doctor of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Peters is married to Mary Smith Peters and they are the parents of two adult children and four grandchildren.
CONTACT INFO:
Interdenominational Theological Center
700 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW
Atlanta, GA 30314
Ph: 404-527-7702
Fax: 404-527-7770
Email: rpeters@itc.edu
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