Book Talk with Sylvester Johnson

Book talk with Sylvester Johnson, African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom 

Sylvester Johnson is Professor of Religion and Culture, Assistant Vice Provost for the Humanities, and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Virginia Tech. He was previously Associate Professor of African American Studies and Religious Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom (Cambridge 2015) and The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity: Race, Heathens, and the People of God (Palgrave 2004), and the co-editor of The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security before and after 9/11 (UC Press 2017). Johnson co-edits the Journal of Africana Religions.

Sponsored by The Department of Religious Studies with the following co-sponsors:

Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

American Studies

The Department of History