Mumford’s embrace of Africana esotericism invites us as scholars of Black religions to return again and again to two pivotal…
Ahmad Greene-Hayes
Ahmad Greene-Hayes is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Religious Studies at Northwestern University. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled, Gods of the Flesh: Black Atlantic Religion-Making in Jim Crow New Orleans, which is under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press in the Class 200: New Studies in Religion series. His work has also appeared in The Black Scholar, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, and The Journal of African American History. He has forthcoming work in The Journal of Africana Religions.
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
This forum explores the white American ritual of Black death. It also ruminates on how scholars of religion reckon with…
Religion, secularism, and Black Lives Matter
In February 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was initially released on…