Theologian, Musician, Author and Educator The gift collections of Dr. Jon Michael Spencer A Catalogue of Books, Microfilm, Journals and Vertical Files Donated to the L. Douglas Wilder Library Virginia Union University Compiled by Suzanne K. Stevenson, Special Collections Librarian Michelle A. Taylor, Technical Services Librarian Library Bibliography Series ©Spring 2002 1 PREFACE Since 1998, Dr. Jon Michael Spencer has donated more than 1,100 books from his personal research library as well as selected journals, microfilm of historic papers and research documentation to the L. Douglas Wilder Library at Virginia Union University. The subject areas reflect his specialties in the history and theology of African-American sacred and secular music, African history and slave culture, and African-American history and sociology. The collection includes a significant number of hymnals from various denominations. The former University of Richmond music and American studies professor is now a professor of religious studies at the University of South Carolina. He earned a music degree from Hampton University and completed graduate work in music composition as well as theology at Washington University and Duke Divinity School. Spencer donated this extensive collection to VUU for several reasons. Until the summer 2000, he was a resident of Richmond and VUU was the city’s African American university. As well, VUU has a School of Theology and Spencer has published extensively in the area of religion. Finally, his architect father, John H. Spencer, participated in the design of the Wilder library. It is in the elder Spencer’s name that Dr. Spencer has donated his collections. The books are housed in the library’s closed collections. It is Spencer’s wish that his collection not circulate, but instead be used as a reference collection. In addition to the books, Spencer has given the library his research files containing the materials he has gathered in the writing of 13 books and many book chapters, articles and papers. Featured in these files are copies of diaries belonging to Verna Arvey, the wife of William Grant Still, called the “dean of Negro composers”; a book manuscript by his daughter, Judith Still, and microfilm of the William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers. 2 As an alumnus of Hampton University, Spencer has collected research files on soprano Dorothy Maynor, another Hampton alumnus; R. Nathaniel Dett, Hampton’s choir director, and historic photographs from the Hampton University archives. No appointment is necessary to use the Spencer collection. Please direct your inquiries to the reference librarian. This bibliography will be available online through the Wilder Library web page: www.vuu.edu/library/home.htm. 3 Table of Contents Spencer Books, Catalogued (by call number) Page 5 Spencer Books, Uncatalogued (alphabetical) Page 108 Spencer Collection – Microfilm, Journals, Tapes Page 111 Spencer Collection – Vertical Files Page 112 Index Page 114 4 Spencer Bibliography AC1 .A4 1 Eliot, Charles William. The Harvard classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909-1910. AC25 .B3132 1972 Barthes, Roland. Mythologies; selected and translated from the French by Annette Lavers. New York: Noonday Press, c1972. AG5 .H19 1977 The Harper dictionary of modern thought. New York: Harper and Row, 1977. B430 .A5 O7 1962 Aristotle Nicomachean ethics. Translated, with introduction and notes, by Martin Ostwald. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1962. B430 .A5 T4 1976 Aristotle. The ethics of Aristotle: the Nicomachean ethics / translated [from the Greek] by J. A. K. Thomson. Harmondsworth; New York [etc.]: Penguin, 1976. B734 .F3 Fairweather, Eugene Rathbone. A scholastic miscellany: Anselm to Ockham. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1956. B2789 .E5 G7 Kant, Immanuel. Religion within the limits of reason alone. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1934. B3148 .J36 1989 Janaway, Christopher. Self and world in Schopenhauer's philosophy. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. B5619 .N6 G33 1991 Gbadegesin, Segun. African philosophy: traditional Yoruba philosophy and contemporary African realities. New York: P. Lang, c1991. B8443 .D695 1987 Doyle, Ruby Wilkins. Twenty daring decades: an A.M.E. Church history/textbook for young readers. [S.l. : s.n.] c1987. 5 BF175.4 .R44 S65 Smith, Curtis D. Jung's quest for wholeness: a religious and historical perspective. Albany: State University of New York Press, c1990. BF575 .S75 1986 Overcoming stress: everything you need to know. Horace W. Batson, Gary Batson, eds. New York: Welstar Publications, c1986. BF697 .A420 1985 Akbar, Na*im. Community of self. Tallahassee, Fla.: Mind Productions, c1985. BF1275 .W65 B73 Braude, Ann. Radical spirits: spiritualism and women's rights in nineteenth-century America. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, c1989. BJ19 .W65 1987 Women and moral theory. Edited by Eva Feder Kittay and Diana T. Meyers. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. BJ44 .L36 1991 Lang, Berel. Writing and the moral self. New York: Routledge, 1991. BJ 124 .R3 1980 Ramsey, Paul. Basic Christian ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980, c1977. BJ1008 .B82 Bradley, F. H. Ethical studies; selected essays. New York, Liberal Arts Press, 1951. BJ1201 .B4 Beach, Waldo. Christian ethics; sources of the living tradition. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1955. BJ1241 .H38 1981 Hauerwas, Stanley. Vision and virtue: essays in Christian ethical reflection. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. BJ1241 .L4 Lehmann, Paul Louis. Ethics in a Christian context. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. 6 BJ1241 .R3 1980 Young, Henry J. Major black religious leaders, 1755-1940. Nashville: Abingdon, c1977. BJ1251 .F53 Fletcher, Joseph F. Situation ethics; the new morality. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1966. BJ1251 .G86 Gustafson, James M. Can ethics be Christian? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975. BJ1251 .G87 1979 Gustafson, James M. Christ and the moral life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979, c1968. BJ1251 .G877 Gustafson, James M. Protestant and Roman Catholic ethics: prospects for rapprochement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. BJ1251 .H325 1981D Hauerwas, Stanley. A community of character: toward a constructive Christian social ethic. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, c1981 (1986 printing). BJ1251 .H327 1983 Hauerwas, Stanley. The peaceable kingdom: a primer in Christian ethics. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, c1983. BJ1251 .N5 1979 Niebuhr, Reinhold. An interpretation of Christian ethics. New York: Seabury Press, 1979, c1963. BJ1533 .C8 T5 1952 Tillich, Paul. The courage to be. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952. BL48 .L58 1986 Long, Charles H. Significations: signs, symbols, and images in the interpretation of religion. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, c1986. BL50 .S25 1985 The sacred in a secular age: toward revision in the scientific study of religion. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1985. 7 BL 51 .A42 1987 Adams, Robert Merrihew. The virtue of faith and other essays in philosophical theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. BL53 .B642 1990 Bourgeois, Patrick L. The religious within experience and existence: a phenomenological investigation. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Duquesne University Press, c1990. BL53 .L27 1988 Lash, Nicholas. Easter in ordinary: reflections on human experience and the knowledge of God. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988. BL53 .P819 Proudfoot, Wayne. Religious experience. University of California Press, c1985. BL54 .B8 Burdick, Donald W. Tongues, to speak or not to speak. Chicago: Moody Press, 1969, 1974. BL54 .S24 Samarin, William J. Tongues of men and angels; the religious language of Pentecostalism. New York: Macmillan, 1972. BL54 .S64 1986 Speaking in tongues: a guide to research on Glossolalia. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c1986. BL60 .G73 1972 Greeley, Andrew M. Unsecular man; the persistence of religion. New York: Schocken Books, 1972. BL60 .W433 Weber, Max. The sociology of religion. Translated by Ephraim Fischoff. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963. BL80.2 .L44 1979 Lessa, William Armand, ed. Reader in comparative religion: an anthropological approach. New York: Harper & Row, c1979. BL221 .A47 1957 8 Albright, William Foxwell. From the stone age to Christianity. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957. BL221 .N52 1970 Niebuhr, Helmut Richard. Radical monotheism and Western culture: with supplementary essays. New York: Harper & Row, 1970, c1960. BL290 .S95 1987 Swinburne, Richard. The evolution of the soul. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986 (1987 printing). BL304 .E413 1963 Eliade, Mircea. Myth and reality. Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. BL600 .W47 1989 Werbner, Richard P. Ritual passage, sacred journey: the process and organization of religious movement. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press; Manchester [England]: Manchester University Press, c1989. BL605 .B213 1952 Backman, E. Louis. Religious dances in the Christian church and in popular medicine. Translated by E. Classen. London: Allen & Unwin, 1952. BL781 .N5 1961 Nilsson, Martin P. Greek folk religion. With a foreword to the Torchbook, edited by Arthur Darby Nock. New York: Harper, 1961. BL785 .F41 Festugiere, Andre* Jean. Personal religion among the Greeks. California University Press; Cambridge University Press, 1960. BL2400 .Z2813 1983 Zahan, Dominique. The religion, spirituality, and thought of traditional Africa. Translated by Kate Ezra and Lawrence M. Martin.