Selected Publications

Books

“The Michael Jackson Cacophony: Religion and the Politics of Black Popular Culture, 1963-1989” (under contract -University of Chicago Press)

“Haunting Joy: Autotheory and the Black Study of Religion” (under contract- Fortress Press) 

 Book Chapters

“Arthur Jafa, Religion, and the Haunting Visuality of Black Popular Culture,” in “Arthur Jafa, Art, and Religion,” (forthcoming)

“Something Like Sanctified: On Theopoetics, Popular Culture, and the Strangeness of Estrangement” in “Theopoetics in Color,” Lakisha Lockhart and Oluwatomisin Oredein eds. Eerdman Books (forthcoming)

“Donald Trump and the Privilege of Outrage,” in “Doing Theology in the Age of Trump,” Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey Robbins eds. Cascade Books

 Peer-Review Journal Articles and Open-Access Publications

“For Such is the Kingdom of Heaven: Neverland, Heterotopic Charisma, and the Michael Jackson Cacophony, Novia Religio,” (forthcoming)

“HIStory Against the World: Black Religion, Spectacular Suffering, and the Destabilizing Gurney Photos of Michael Jackson and Tupac Shakur,” Religions, 2023

“Michael Jackson and the Religious Imagination,” Theology and Religion Online - Bloomsbury Religion in North America, 2023 (forthcoming)

“As the World Burns: Teaching Parable of the Sower in the Wake of the Pandemic” The National Teaching & Learning Forum, Volume 31 (Issue 3), March 11, 2022 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ntlf.30324

“Maddened Pedagogies: Teaching Religion and Black Popular Culture” Indiana University Center for Religion & the Human, https://crh.indiana.edu/teaching-religion-in-public/engaging-religion/teaching-modules/hill-module.html, September 17, 2021

“The Black Church and the Black Fantastic: Black Religious Experience in Popular Culture” Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, berkleycenter.georgetown.edu, April 8, 2021

“Watchmen, Haunting, and the Religious Imagination” Black Perspectives, aaihs.org, February 12, 2020, https://www.aaihs.org/watchmen-haunting-and-the-religious-imagination/

“Kneeling and the (Re)Signification of the Black Fantastic” Black Agenda Report, blackagendareport.com, November 8, 2017, https://www.blackagendareport.com/kneeling-and-resignification-black-fantastic

 “God Forgive Me for My Brash Delivery: My Journey into Hip Hop Theopoetics” Syndicate, Vol.3, No. 1, 2016, edited by Christian Amondson, https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/theopoetics/