Complicating the Prosperity Gospel Story: A Microeconomics of Pentecostalism, International Edition
Pentecostalism, prosperity gospel, and a mining economy? Sounds like West Virginia, but here we’re talking about Zambia….
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Poets and Preachers: How Black Literature Blurs the Lines Between Sacred and Secular
The first book from Columbia University’s Josef Sorett examines the religious roots of African American literary and cultural movements of the 20th Century.
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Bipolar Faith, an Autobiography of Race and Mental Illness
A womanist theologian explores the underexamined intersection of faith, race and mental health.
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Before Black Twitter: How the Early Black Press Shaped American Discourse Around Race and Religion
Early black newspapers helped to solidify black identity at a time when that identity was being attacked in the cruelest, most violent ways.
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Power in a Union: How the Working Class Shaped Religion in America
A time when working-class identity and religion converged
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A Time to Break Down, and A Time to Build Up: Reinventing Ministry in Post-Katrina New Orleans
A disaster is not an “Act of God.”
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An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right
What inspired you to write If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise…
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A Biblical Perspective That Recognizes Black Women
What inspired you to write An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation? I used some of…
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How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?
What inspired you to write Losing Our Religion: How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising Their Children? It…
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The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music
Ten Questions on “Strangers Below: Primitive Baptists and American Culture”
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