Colored Television: Black Religion in Global Context

Marla Frederick is Professor of African and African American Studies and the Study of Religion atHarvard University, and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion. She is the author of Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith, an ethnography of the complex lives and faith commitments of women in rural North Carolina.

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December 16, 2011

God Complex, Complex gods, or God’s Complex? Jay Z, Poor Black Youth, and Making ‘The Struggle’ Divine

Michael Eric Dyson is an academic, author, social activist, Baptist minister, and preacher and radio host. Dyson is Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and has taught at Chicago Theological Seminary, Brown University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University, DePaul University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Africana Studies, Black American Popular Religion, Black Studies, Center for Study of Religion, Jay-Z, Michael Eric Dyson, Popular Religion, religion, Religious Studies, spotlight

Colored Television: Black Religion in Global Context

God Complex, Complex gods, or God’s Complex? Jay Z, Poor Black Youth, and Making ‘The Struggle’ Divine

Spirit in the Art(s): Black Religion and the Problem of the Popular

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