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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

Fulfilling the Dream? Complicating the Narrative

The Civil Rights Movement needs to be understood in its historical context…
Jonathan L. Walton
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GLBT Activists and the Black Church: Can We Talk?

Misdirected finger-pointing and flat-footed social analysis has accompanied purposeful protests and mass social action in the response to the passage of Prop 8.
Jonathan L. Walton
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Religion Dispatches

Sometimes You Can't Say a Word

For a people who bear the burden of slavery, legalized apartheid and the continued vestiges of both, for a moment the elusive goal of feeling fully part of America’s democratic project was realized.
Jonathan L. Walton
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