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Under the supervision of Dr. Anthony B. Pinn, the African American Religion concentration at Rice University currently consist of four students, while a over a dozen have graduated the program over the last decade. All of us do work in African American Religious Studies, but our research interests, theoretical and methodological commitments, and dissertation projects […]
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Since 2012, the students in African American Religion at Rice have worked on a numerous projects regarding embodiment and religion. Beginning in 2012, Dr. Anthony B. Pinn and Dr. Gordon Lynch, Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology at the University of Kent—along with some of their graduate students—organized and participated in several workshops, funded by […]
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Sharde’ N. Chapman is a second-year doctoral student in African American Religion at Rice University. In 2010 she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies from Rhodes College. While studying at Rhodes she studied Medieval and Renaissance Art History in Western Europe at Lincoln College, Oxford University. In 2009 she presented a […]
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