Office: Bear Hall 282
Phone: (910) 962-3411
Email: murrells@uncw.edu
Web Site: http://people.uncw.edu/murrells

Degrees

• Ph.D., Drew University Graduate School
• M.Phil., Drew University Graduate School
• Ed.M., Rutgers University Graduate School of Education
• M.A., Wheaton College

Areas of Expertise

• Caribbean Religions
• African American Religions
• African Religions
• Hebrew Bible

Recent Publications

• Religion, Politics, and the Bible in Caribbean Culture. Edited by H. Gossai and N. S. Murrell. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
• Chanting Down Babylon, The Rastafari Reader. Edited by N. Samuel Murrell, William D. Spencer, and Adrian Anthony McFarlane. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. 

Courses Taught

• PAR 103: Introduction to Religion
• PAR 233: African Religions
• PAR 235: Introduction to Old Testament
• PAR 243: Afro-American Religion
• PAR 244: Caribbean Religions
• PAR 255: Historical Geography of the Middle East (Biblical Era)
• PAR 334: Old Testament Literature
• PAR 495: Black Intellectual Tradition
• PAR 495: Rasta and Garvey