George Aumoithe: I’m happy we get to speak, Ahmad, following our February 2024 Black Religion and Mental Health symposium at…
Ahmad Greene-Hayes
Ahmad Greene-Hayes is an associate professor of African American religious studies at Harvard Divinity School and the incoming managing editor of the Journal of Africana Religions. He is the author of Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans (University of Chicago Press, 2025).
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Uranus and I are pretty good friends
April 8, 2022
Mumford’s embrace of Africana esotericism invites us as scholars of Black religions to return again and again to two pivotal…
Antiblackness as religion: Black living, Black dying, and Covid-19
January 7, 2021
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
September 22, 2016
In February 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was initially released on…












