Wednesday, March 2, 7 p.m., ELC Gallery Theatre (LC 301)
Clarence E. Hardy is professor of the History of American Christianity at Yale Divinity School, and the author of the acclaimed James Baldwin’s God: Sex, Hope and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture. He has written articles that have appeared in The Journal of Religion, Church History, and The American Quarterly and consider various aspects of black religious culture. Professor Hardy is especially interested in the evolution of black religious rhetoric in the United States during the interwar and postwar periods. He is currently working on two books that consider how black descriptions of the divine have evolved in the modern period. Hardy received his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at Union Theological Seminary.