EDUCATION (later in life)
Masters Dissertation:
The Contribution of Metropolitan Community Church to a Theology of Liberation for Black People in the U.K. September, 2003, University of Birmingham.
Doctoral Thesis:
Homophobia and the Black Church: the Movement towards Inclusivity (Submission Pending) University of Birmingham. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
PUBLICATIONS (in the U.K.)
Redfearn, Caroline (2007) "The Nature of Homophobia in the Black Church" in Jagessar, N & Reddie, A. G. (eds) Postcolonial Black British Theology; New Textures and Themes. Peterborough, Epworth. 2007. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-7162-0626-2 (an initial exploration of the incidence of homosexual abuse during the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade)
http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/BT
Redfearn, Caroline (2007) Book Review of Horace L. Griffin, Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2006. 255 pp Pbk. ISBN 0-8298-1599-6. Published in Black Theology; An International Journal, Volume 6 Number 1 2008.
http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/BT
Redfearn, Caroline (2008) "A Legacy of Slavery - Black with the Slaves or Mulatto with the Slavers? An English Jamaican Theological Reflection on the trajectories of "mixed race." A paper submitted for the International Conference, "Freedom is For Freeing" held in July 2007 at Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham, to mark the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. To be published in Black Theology, Slavery and Contemporary Christianity: 200 years and no apology, by Ashgate, Spring 2010.
Contributor to the scriptural commentaries posted on the web site of Out in Scripture; An honest encounter between our lives and the Bible.
http://www.hrc.org/scripture/index.asp
Contributor to Imani - daily reflections posted on the MCC People of African Descent web site.
