Terrence L. Johnson
Biography of Terrence L. Johnson
Terrence L. Johnson is Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies, Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS), and director of Religion and Public Life. Johnson earned his BA from Morehouse College, went on to receive his Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, and later completed his PhD at Brown University. 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.
He is the author of Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue (2022, with Jacques Berlinerblau), 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 (2021); and Tragic Soul-Life: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy (2012). He also serves as co-editor of the Duke University Press series Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. He is currently [2025] 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.
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