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Jonathan L. Walton

Jonathan L. Walton is assistant professor at Harvard Divinity School. His lastest book is: Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Religious Broadcasting (New York University Press).

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Religion Dispatches
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” illumines the hypocrisy of a nation unable to check and challenge itself concerning its own moral hubris.
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Religion Dispatches
Televangelism is not the sole domain of the white religious right. In his new book, Jonathan Walton looks at the cultural creativity and impact of black religious broadcasting.
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Religion Dispatches
A new book intended to redirect evangelical Christianity from its narrow focus on doctrine to a broader commitment to the amelioration of suffering and stewardship of the environment meets with hostility from a panel of seminary professors.
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