Religious Studies News

To commemorate and celebrate the ten year anniversary of Obery Hendricks' "The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted" (Doubleday, 2006), Hendricks is joined by a panelist of activists, academics, scholars, and pastors convene a roundtable to discuss the influential nature of this work. Panelists: - Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis, Presiding - Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University - Reverend Jesse Jackson, Operation Push, Chicago, IL - Nyasha Junior, Temple University - Gary Dorrien, Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary - Keri Day, Brite Divinity School - Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University - Obery M. Hendricks, Columbia University