In this episode, Anna has a conversation with Dr. Oluwatomisin Oredein and Dr. James Howard Hill Jr. about Theopoetics in Color. For more information on enfleshed please go to enfleshed.com and to donate to the work that we do please go to enfleshed.com/donate
Oluwatomisin Oredein is an assistant professor in Black Religious Traditions, Constructive Theology and Ethics at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. She is also director of the Black Church Studies Program. Her scholastic and creative work engages theopoetics from a Black diasporic perspective, constructive theology, liminal identity and faith, American African articulations of womanist theology and ethics, and postcolonial thought.
She is the author of The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice (University of Notre Dame Press, 2023), the co-editor of Theopoetics in Color: Embodied Approaches in Theological Discourse with Lakisha R. Lockhart-Rusch (Eerdmans, 2024), and author of the work in process, The Care Book."
James Howard Hill, Jr, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Boston University. He holds a B.A. from Criswell College, an M.T.S. from Southern Methodist University, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He teaches courses and conducts research in black study, religion and the politics of popular culture in the United States, political theory, black political thought, modernity, ecology, and coloniality, and conceptual methodologies informing the study of religion. Hill, Jr is the author of two forthcoming books under contract: The Haunting King: Religion, Michael Jackson, and the Politics of Black Popular Culture (under contract with The University of Chicago Press Class 200: New Studies in Religion series) and Haunting Joy: Essays on Religion, Black Popular Culture, and Overcoming Childhood Adversity (under contract with Fortress Press). He is a 2024 inductee into the prestigious Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College. His scholarship has received recognition and support from The Crossroads Project, The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (Heidelberg, Germany), The Henry Luce Foundation, the Forum for Theological Exploration, The Louisville Institute, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the Mellon Cluster Research Fellowship in Comparative Race and Diaspora studies.
