Christopher Hunt is Assistant Professor of Religion at Colorado College. A scholar of African American Religions, his research brings an interdisciplinary lens, including African American religious history, Black studies, contemporary theology (particularly Black, womanist, and queer theologies), and queer studies to bear in exploring the relationship of religion to varying socio-political phenomena, particularly gender, sexuality, and race. These diverse academic disciplines converge in Hunt’s book entitled, Jimmy’s Faith: James Baldwin, Disidentification, and the Queer Possibilities of Black Religion (Fordham University Press). This book explores the ways in which Baldwin utilizes and queers religious language and symbols in offering his powerful critique of anti-Black racism in the United States.
