Selected Articles and Chapters

  • “The House We Live In: Religio-Racial Theories and the Study of Religion,” in Roundtable: “Religio-Racial Identity” as Challenge and Critique, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 88:2 (June 2020): 440-459.

  • “A Rare Human Document”: LoBagola’s African American Humbug Religion,” American Religion 1:1 (Fall 2019): 27-48.

  • “Framing the Nation: Religion, Film, and American Belonging,” The Journal of Mormon History 45:2 (April 2019): 23-48.

  • “Race, Religion, and Documentary Film,” in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History, eds., Kathryn Gin Lum and Paul Harvey, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2018), 288-303.

  • “’Real True Buds’: Celibacy and Same-Sex Desire in Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement,” in Gillian A. Frank, Bethany Moreton, and Heather White, eds., Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth Century United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), 90-112. (Honorable Mention, 2015 LGBT Religious Archives Network History Award.)

  • “Invisible Women: On Women and Gender in the Study of African American Religious History,” Journal of Africana Religions 1:1 (2013): 133-149.

  • “’The Secret at the Root’: Performing African American Religious Modernity in Hall Johnson’s Run, Little Chillun,” Religion and American Culture 21:1 (Winter 2011): 39-79.

  • “Truths that Liberate the Soul: Eva Jessye and the Politics of Religious Performance,” in R. Marie Griffith and Barbara D. Savage, eds., Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), 222-244.

  • “Universal in Spirit, Local in Character: The Riverside Church and New York City,” in Peter J. Paris, James Hudnut-Beumler, John W. Cook, Lawrence Mamiya, Nora Tubbs Tisdale, Judith Weisenfeld, The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York (New York University Press, 2004), 179-240.

  • “‘My Story Begins Before I Was Born’: Myth, History, and Power in Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust,” in S. Brent Plate, ed., Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making (Palgrave, 2003), 43-66.