William Ronald Jones

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Jones, William Ronald (20th Century)

Jones, a lecturer on religious humanism, was named 1992 Humanist Pioneer by the American Humanist Association.

An African American, once a fundamentalist, he is founder and director of the black studies program at Florida State University. Dr. Jones, who received his Master of Divinity degree at Harvard, edited Black Theology, a series of essays. He has held visiting professorships at Princeton and at Union Theological Seminary as well as at Brown and Howard. In South Africa, he has completed extensive fieldwork in conflict resolution.

Jones is a contributing editor of Religious Humanism, a quarterly of the Fellowship for Religious Humanists.