The Sept 29th session of TRiP examines a piece by James Howard Hill, Jr. titled “Maddened Pedagogies: Teaching Religion and Black Popular Culture.” Hill, a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Northwestern University and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at University of Oklahoma, invites us to consider the ways the “maddened witness” of Black popular culture fractures the very foundation of canonical knowledge production in the religious studies classroom and, in doing so, opens an alternative way of living amongst the knowledges so commonly excluded from academic inquiry.
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