NAME/TITLE:
Stephen C. Finley
 
 
CONTACT INFO:
107 Coates Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
225.578.
225.578.4897 (fax)
scfinley@lsu.edu
 
 
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Rice University (Expected Dec 2008)
M.A.,  Rice University
M. Div., Virginia Union University, School of Theology
B.A.,  Pepperdine University
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS: of religio
African American Religious thought and traditions; theory and method in the stody of Religion; Religion in America
 
RECENT COURSES TAUGHT:
Introduction to Religion
Race and Black Bodies in Context
Old Testament Prophetic Literature
Philosophy of Religion
Introduction to Old Testament Studies
Wisdom Literature
 
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Associate Editor, (with Anthony B. Pinn, Editor).  Encyclopedia of African American
Religious Cultures. 2  Volumes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO (Under Contract)
Articles/Essays
[with Margarita L. Simon]. “That Girl Is Poison”: White Supremacy, Anxiety, and the
Conflation of Food and Women in the Nation of Islam.  Women in World
Religions. Vol. 7, New and Creole Religions. Edited by Darnise L. Martin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Praeger (Forthcoming).
“Two Warring Ideals, One Dark Body: Hegemony, Duality, and Temporality of the Black Body in African-American Religion.”  Blackberries and Redbones:  Critical Articulations of Black Hair/Body Politics in Africana Communities (Ch. 2). Edited by Regina Spellers and Kimberly Moffitt. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc. (Forthcoming).
“Bling Bling.” The Black Church, Hip Hop Culture, and the Dilemma. Edited by Emmett
G. Price, III.  (Forthcoming). 
“Homoeroticism and the African-American Heterosexual Male Quest for Meaning in the
Black Church.” Black Theology: An International Journal 5.3 (2007): 305-26.
Entries
Beauty.”  Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions.  Edited by Yudit Greenberg. Santa Barbara,
CA: ABC-CLIO(2007): 67-70.
“African American Religions.”  Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions.  Edited by Yudit
Greenberg. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO (2007): 35-38.
 
AWARDS AND HONORS:
Diversity Scholar in Residence, Allegheny College, October 22-25, 2007
Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship, Marquette University, 2007-2008