Deciphering and traveling the multiverse with Black religious people invites observers to retheorize Blackness beyond culture, color, and history—allowing the…
The possibilities of a Black religious multiverse
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Healing hands in Black religion
Rev. Fannie Elizabeth Burgin Harris. She was a healer. She was a pastor, and while not ordained by any denomination,…
Uranus and I are pretty good friends
Mumford’s embrace of Africana esotericism invites us as scholars of Black religions to return again and again to two pivotal…
The just shall live by faith: Living without metaphysical guarantee in an antiblack world
Antiblack and white supremacist religions and practices, then, are deceptively anti-faith. And the consequence of grounding life, existence, and worship…
A Witness in our spirits
Considering how Black people in America might go on living and loving life, facing seemingly interminable political impossibility, I want…
Pandemics and the meaning of Black religion
What language and frameworks do we draw upon to name the impact of the violent conflation of global state-sanctioned antiblack…
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…
Patriarchy without fatherhood in the Nation of Islam
In this forum’s considerations of fathers as God-like and God as father-like, the NOI, as well as the Black American…
United States religion in a transnational frame
How does McAlister’s account of religion and politics square with the prominent themes of contemporary developments?
A riot in the social order
Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement and a number of groups like it embraced heterodox visions of a new world order…