Скачать или смотреть Archives of the Impossible conference | Plenary Lecture: Stephen C. Finley ’06, ’09

Stephen C. Finley ’06, ’09, chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and associate professor of Religious Studies and African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University, presented a lecture titled "In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam" as part of "Archives of the Impossible: Transnationalism, Transdisciplinarity, Transcendence," an international conference at Rice University. The May 11-13, 2023 conference featured speakers and panelists who set out to demystify the paranormal through their research and experiences regarding metaphysics, UFOs and much more.

Finley is the former executive director (2018-2021) of the Society for the Study of Black Religion. He is the co-editor (with Margarita Simon Guillory and Hugh R. Page, Jr.) of "Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: There Is a Mystery”... (Brill 2015), which initiated Africana Esoteric Studies, a new area of scholarship with a growing body of work. He is co-editor, with Biko Mandela Gray (Rice PhD) and Lori Latrice Martin, of "The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress" (Edinburgh University Press).

His monograph, "In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam" was published by Duke University Press in 2022. He is co-author (with Biko Mandela Gray and Lori Latrice Martin) of "Ivory Towers, Regulatory Technologies, and the (Re)Production of Anti-Black Violence in the Academy: Introducing Black Faculty Studies" (under advance contract with Johns Hopkins University Press). His "The Afro-Theosophysics of Robert T. Browne: Race, Blackness, and Theory of Religion" is under advance contract with Oxford University Press.

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