University of Nebraska Kearney

Sociology
Office: Copeland Hall 120C
Phone: 308-865-8760
sglaz1234@aol.com 

Education Background
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1981
M.A., University of Connecticut, 1976
M.Div, Princeton, 1974
B.A., Eastern University, 1971

Personal Statement 

A native of Connecticut, Stephen D. Glazier earned an A.B. in Sociology/Anthropology from Eastern University, a degree in Theology from Princeton, an MA and PhD. in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut, and was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Caribbean archaeology at Yale University. Dr. Glazier conducted extensive fieldwork on the Caribbean Island of Trinidad and has published a number of articles and books focusing on Caribbean religions such as Rastafari, Vodoun, and the Spiritual Baptists. His expertise lies in the areas of anthropology, religion, and race relations. Glazier is Past-President of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness and Past Secretary of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. He is a member of the Graduate Faculty in Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
 

Courses Taught 

Anthropology
Race and Minority Relations
Sociology of Religion

Recent Publications

Books: 

Stephen D. Glazier and Charles A. Flowerday, editors. 2003. Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical and Methodological Essays. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Andrew S. Buckser and Stephen D. Glazier, editors. 2003. The Anthropology of Religious Conversion. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Stephen D, Glazier. 2001. The Encyclopedia of African and African American Religions (general editor). New York and London: Routledge.

Stephen D. Glazier, editor. 1999. Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Stephen D. Glazier. 1991. Marchin' the Pilgrims Home: A Study of Spiritual Baptists of Trinidad. Salem, WI: Sheffield Publishing

Stephen D. Glazier, editor. 1985. Caribbean Ethnicity Revisited. New York and London: Gordon and Breach.

Music Recording: 

Stephen D. Glazier 1980. Spiritual Baptist Music of Trinidad; Recorded in Trinidad by Stephen D. Glazier. FE 4234. New York: Folkways Record and Service Corp. (Re-issued in 1991 by The Smithsonian Institution).

Editorial Advisory Board: Stephen D. Glazier, David Hicks, and Richard Warms. 2011. Anthropology of Religion: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies, edited by Phillips Stevens Jr and Denice J. Szafran. New York and London: Routledge.

Chapters: 

Stephen D. Glazier. 2013. "Sango Healers and Healing in the Caribbean." Chapter 7 in Caribbean Healing Traditions: Implications for Health and Mental Health. Patsy Sutherland. Roy Moodley, and Barry Chavannes editors. New York and London: Routledge.

Stephen D. Glazier. 2012. "Religious Developments in the Caribbean Between 1865 and 1945" in The Cambridge History of Religions in America. Vol. II: Religions in America, 1790-1945. Stephen J. Stein, editor. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, pp. 727-748

Stephen D. Glazier. 2009. "Wither Sango?: An Inquiry into Sango's 'Authenticity' and Prominence in the Caribbean " in Sango in Africa and the African Diaspora. Joel E. Tishken, Toyin Falola, and A. Akinyemi, editors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 233-247.

Stephen D. Glazier. 2009. “The Anthropological Study of Religion." in The World’s Religions: Continuities and Transformations. Peter B. Clarke and Peter Beyer, editors. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 24-39.

Stephen D. Glazier, Leslie G. Desmangles, and Joseph M. Murphy. 2009. "Understanding Caribbean Religions." Chapter 10 in Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean. 2nd edition. Richard S. Hillman and Thomas J. D'Agostino, editors. Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner, pp. 289-338.

Stephen D. Glazier. 2005. “Caribbean Religions: Pre-Columbian” (volume III, pp.1426-1432) and “Caribbean Religions: History of Study” (volume XV, pp. 10023-10030). The Encyclopedia of Religion. Second Edition. Lindsay Jones, general editor. New York: Macmillan Reference.

Stephen D. Glazier. 2003. "Limin' wid Jah: Spiritual Baptists Who Become Rastafarians and Then Become Spiritual Baptists Again." The Anthropology of Religious Conversion. Andrew Buckser and Stephen D. Glazier, editors. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 149-170

Stephen D. Glazier. 1996. “Changes in the Spiritual Baptist Religion, l976-1990.” Ay BoBo: Afro-Caribbean Cults: Identity and Resistance. Teil 1: Kulte. Manfred Kremser, editor. Wien: Institut fur Volkerkunde der Universitat Wien, pp. 107-114

Stephen D. Glazier. 1993. "Responding to the Anthropologist:: When the Spiritual Baptists of Trinidad Read What I Write About Them." When They Read What We Write: The Politics of Ethnography. Caroline B. Brettell, editor. New York: Bergin and Garvey, pp. 37-48

Stephen D. Glazier. 1992. "A Comparative Study of Caribbean Pilgrimages: Haiti and Trinidad.' Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage. E. Alan Morinis, editor. Westport, CT: Greenwood, pp. 135-147

Stephen D. Glazier. 1980. "The Boye in lsland-Carib Culture." in La antropologia americanista en al actualidad: Homenaje al Raphael Girard. vol. 2, Mexico City: Editores Mexicanas Unidos, pp. 34-46

Articles:

Stephen D. Glazier. 2008. ”Demanding Spirits and Reluctant Devotees: Belief and Unbelief in the Trinidadian Orisa Movement." Social Analysis 52 (1):19-38.

Stephen D. Glazier. 2006. "Beyond a Boundary’: Life, Death and Cricket in Trinidadian Concepts of the Afterlife." Anthropology and Humanism 31 (2):172-184

Stephen D. Glazier. 2001. "Adumbrations of Dread: Millennial Visions among Trinidad's Spiritual Baptists." Journal of Ritual Studies 15 (1): 17-26

Stephen D. Glazier. 1997. "Embedded Truths: Creativity and Context in Spiritual Baptist Music." Latin American Music Review 18(1): 44-56

Stephen D. Glazier. 1996. "New World African Ritual: Genuine and Spurious." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 35 (4): 421-432.

Stephen D. Glazier. 1995. "Latin American Perspectives on Religion and Politics." Latin American Research Review 30 (1): 247-255

Stephen D. Glazier. 1991. "Funerals and Mourning in the Spiritual Baptist and Chango Traditions." Revista America Negra 1 (2): 123-134 (Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia)

Stephen D. Glazier. 1985. "Syncretism and Separation: Ritual Change in an Afro-Caribbean Faith." Journal of American Folklore 98 (387): 49-62

Stephen D. Glazier. 1984. "Organizacion social y economica de los Baptistas Espirituales con atencion especial a sus misiones en Venezuela." Revista Montalban 15: 5-41

Stephen D. Glazier. 1983. "Cultural Pluralism and Respectability in Trinidad." Ethnic and Racial Studies 6 (3): 351-355

Stephen D. Glazier and Alfredo E. Figueredo. 1982. "Spatial Behavior, Ethnicity and Social Organization in the Prehistory of Trinidad." Journal de la Societe des Americanistes de Paris 68: 33-40.