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SUMMARY:Terrence Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Terrence L. Johnson is Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies\, professor of African and African American studies\, and director of religion and public life at Harvard Divinity School. He is also a faculty associate of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard and a member of the Corporation at Haverford College. His research interests include African American political thought\, ethics\, American religions and the role of religion in public life. Johnson’s interdisciplinary research agenda is historical\, critical and constructive. He weaves together African American religions\, political theory and American history to paint broad conceptual schemes for imagining religion\, democracy\, ethics\, liberalism\, justice and freedom. \nIn 2024-25\, he was an inaugural Steven M. Polan Fellow in constitutional law and history at the Brennan Center for Justice\, a nonpartisan law and policy institute. The Polan Fellows program provides a platform for debates on the meaning and promise of the U.S. constitution.  \nHe is the co-author of Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue\, winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book award by the Association for Ethnic Studies; We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter; and Tragic Soul-Life: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy. He also serves as co-editor of the Duke University Press Series “Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People.” He is currently completing a manuscript entitled Torn Asunder: Race and Religion in the Shadow of Law and Justice\, which is under contract with Columbia University Press. He is also co-writing a book on ethics and law with M. Cathleen Kaveny tentatively entitled Christian Ethics and the Trump Court.  \nA graduate of Morehouse College\, Johnson received his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Brown University.
URL:https://www.chq.org/event/terrence-johnson/
LOCATION:Hall of Philosophy\, Hall of Philosophy
CATEGORIES:Chautauqua Institution Program,Week Three (July 11–18),Weekly Themes,CHQ Assembly,Interfaith Lecture Series
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