J Michael Raley

J. Michael Raley presently teaches in the history department at Northeastern Illionois University in Chicago. He has served churches in Kentucky, Georgia, and Indiana as pastor and as director of music. His articles and reviews have appeared in "Anuario Musical", "The Southern Baptist Church Music Journal", and "Journal of Southern Religion". Raley has been the recipient of research fellowships from the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt,...See more

J. Michael Raley presently teaches in the history department at Northeastern Illionois University in Chicago. He has served churches in Kentucky, Georgia, and Indiana as pastor and as director of music. His articles and reviews have appeared in "Anuario Musical", "The Southern Baptist Church Music Journal", and "Journal of Southern Religion". Raley has been the recipient of research fellowships from the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt, Germany), and the Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenb?ttel, Germany). See less