Vincent W. Lloyd is an American theologian and author. He is the director of

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. He now teaches as a visiting faculty member at

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. Lloyd received a

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from

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and both an

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and a Ph.D. from the

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Books

*''Black Dignity: The Struggle Against Domination'' (Yale University Press, 2022) *''Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons'', with Joshua Dubler (Oxford University Press, 2019) *''In Defense of Charisma'' (Columbia University Press, 2018) *''Religion of the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and Black Theology'' (Fordham University Press, 2017) *''Black Natural Law'' (Oxford University Press, 2016) *''The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology'' (Stanford University Press, 2011) *''Law and Transcendence: On the Unfinished Project of Gillian Rose'' (Palgrave, 2009) *''Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics'' (Orbis, 2017) Co-Editor *''Race and Secularism in America'' (Columbia University Press, 2016) Co-Editor *''Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh'' (Routledge, 2014) Co-Editor *''Race and Political Theology'' (Stanford University Press, 2012) editor *''Secular Faith'' (Cascade, 2010) Co-Editor

References

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