2021 Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant for Researchers
Leonard McKinnis, Assistant Professor of African American Religion and Black Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded a Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant.
From the Louisville Institute:
His project, "Divine Blackness: Christian Imagination in Overcoming Racism," argues for a more elastic understanding of Black religion, and pursues to demonstrate how Ethiopianism performs a fugitive function in the process of identity retrieval and re-construction in the Black Coptic Church, such that the construction of an imagined homeland seeks to de-stabilize notions of the citizen. Divine Blackness, therefore, pursues to nuance the conversation of Black communities of faith in North America via a critical examination of the intersection of race and religion.
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