M. SHAWN COPELAND is Professor of Theology and Core Faculty in the Program of African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. Recent publications include Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being (Fortress Press, 2010); The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille (Paulist Press, 2009); and a coedited volume, with LaReine Marie Mosely and Albert J. Raboteau, Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience (Orbis Books, 2009).
ASHON CRAWLEY is Assistant Professor jointly appointed in Religious Studies and in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press, 2017); “Circum-Religious Performance: Queer(ed) Black Bodies and the Black Church,” Theology & Sexuality 14, no. 2 (2008): 201–22; and “‘Let's Get It On!’ Performance Theory and Black Pentecostalism,” Black Theology 6, no. 3 (2008): 308–29.
KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS is Dean of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary. She is the author of Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (Orbis Books, 2015); What's Faith Got to Do with It? Black Bodies/Christian Souls (Orbis Books, 2005); Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective (Orbis Books, 1999); and The Black Christ (Orbis Books, 1994). She is the coeditor, with Marvin M. Ellison, of Sexuality and the Sacred: Sources for Theological Reflection, 2nd ed. (Westminster John Knox, 2010).
KATIE WALKER GRIMES is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University. Her works include Fugitive Saints: Catholicism and the Politics of Slavery (Fortress Press, 2017);“Christ Divided”: Antiblackness as Corporate Vice (Fortress Press, 2017); “Breaking the Body of Christ: The Sacraments of Initiation in a Habitat of White Supremacy,” Political Theology 18, no. 1 (2017): 22–43.
VINCENT W. LLOYD is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University. He is the author of Religion of the Field Negro: Black Secularism and Black Theology (Fordham University Press, 2017) and Black Natural Law (Oxford University Press, 2016). He edited Race and Political Theology (Stanford University Press, 2012) and coedited, with Jonathan Kahn, Race and Secularism in America (Columbia University Press, 2016) and, with Molly Bassett, Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh (Routledge, 2014).
EBONI MARSHALL TURMAN is Assistant Professor of Theology and African American Religion at Yale Divinity School. Recent publications include Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); “‘The Greatest Tool of the Devil’: Mamie, Malcolm X, and the PolitiX of the Black Madonna in Black Churches and the Nation of Islam in the United States,” Journal of Africana Religions 3, no. 1 (2015): 130–50; and “Black & Blue: Uncovering the Ecclesial Cover-Up of Black Women's Bodies through a Womanist Reimagining of the Doctrine of the Incarnation,” in Reimagining with Christian Doctrines: Responding to Global Gender Injustices, ed. Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Jenny Daggers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
BRYAN N. MASSINGALE is Professor of Theology at Fordham University. He is the author of Racial Justice and the Catholic Church (Orbis Books, 2010); “Has the Silence Been Broken? Catholic Theological Ethics and Racial Justice,” Theological Studies 75, no. 1 (2014): 133–55; and “James Cone and Recent Catholic Episcopal Teaching on Racism,” Theological Studies 61, no. 4 (2000): 700–730.
ELIAS ORTEGA-APONTE is Associate Professor of Afro-Latino/a Religions and Cultural Studies at Drew University. He is the coeditor, with Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre and Catherine Keller, of Common Goods: Economy, Ecology, and Political Theology (Fordham University Press, 2015), in which he has a chapter entitled “Democratic Futures in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration: Toward a Political Theology of Prison Abolition.” Other works include “Epistemology,” in Hispanic American Religious Cultures, ed. Miguel De La Torre (ABC-CLIO, 2009), and “An Africana Reading of Complexity” (forthcoming).
ANDREW PREVOT is Assistant Professor of Theology and Affiliate Faculty in the Program of African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. He is the author of Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality amid the Crises of Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015); “Divine Opacity: Mystical Theology, Black Theology, and the Problem of Light-Dark Aesthetics,” Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 16, no. 2 (2016): 166–88; and “The Aporia of Race and Identity: J. Kameron Carter and the Future of Black Liberation Theology,” in Religion, Economics, and Culture in Conflict and Conversation, ed. Laurie Cassidy and Maureen O'Connell (Orbis Books, 2010).
SANTIAGO SLABODSKY is Associate Professor of Religion and the Florence and Robert Kaufman Chair in Jewish Studies at Hofstra University. Recent publications include Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and “Emmanuel Levinas's Geopolitics: Overlooked Conversations between Rabbinical and Third World Decolonialisms,” Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 18, no. 2 (2010): 147–65. He is also the coeditor, with Roland Faber, of Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities (Lexington, 2016).