William D. Hart

William David Hart (PhD, Princeton University, 1994) is professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. His research and writing interests include the construction of religion and its ethical-political uses. A self-described critical theorist of religion, Hart is the author of Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (Cambridge, 2000), Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis (Palgrave, 2008), and Afro-Eccentricity: Beyond the Standard Narrative of Black Religion (Palgrave 2011).