An exciting project forthcoming from @xroadproj.bsky.social Director @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social and members of Crossroads Project's Black Religious Studies Working Group, Vaughn Booker, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, and Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh.

Judith Weisenfeld@jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 2d ago

Submitted for publication by @uchicagopress.bsky.social in Fall 2027. Many thanks to @ahmadgreene.com for initiating the project and overseeing so much of the work. Stay tuned for work from an amazing group of contributors!

@xroadproj.bsky.social Community Stories Fellow Rima Vesely-Flad is part of @princetonccsr.bsky.social's Black Buddhist studies project. Check out her work for @xroadproj.bsky.social's SPIRIT HOUSE, featuring interviews with Black Nichiren Buddhists. www.crossroads-spirithouse.org/veseley-flad

Vesely-Flad | Spirit House

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RNS@rns.org · last wk.

(RNS) — Buddhism is an American religious tradition that intersects meaningfully with African American religious history, experts in the emerging field of Black Buddhism say.

The Crossroads Project: Request for Proposals @xroadproj.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/ther3pro...

The Crossroads Project: Request for Proposals

American Crossroads: Stories of African American Spiritual Foundings

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We're holding an information session about the American Crossroads grants on Zoom on Monday, August 3 from 5:00-6:00pm Eastern.

American Crossroads Grants Information Session

Considering applying? Join Crossroads Project Director Judith Weisenfeld on Zoom for an information session about the American Crossroads grants. Monday, August 3, 20265:00pm - 6:00pm Eastern

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The Crossroads Project@xroadproj.bsky.social · last mo.

The Crossroads Project invites proposals for American Crossroads Fellows Grants (up to $15,000) to create interpretive material about African American religious history and provide opportunities for community engagement. Deadline: September 1, 2026 crossroads.princeton.edu/grant-progra...

@xroadproj.bsky.social Arts Fellow @ashoncrawley.bsky.social book about the Hammond Organ, the tragedy of AIDS, and the Black church is available for pre-order. Check out his Arts Fellow work on SPIRIT HOUSE: www.crossroads-spirithouse.org/crawley

From Infinite World

An innovative work that explores the relationship between the Black church, the Hammond organ, and the musicians that bring it to life., From Infinite World, The Sound of the Hammond Organ and the Tra...

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A great opportunity for contingent and independent scholars of religion: $3000 stipend, one-week residency at The Ohio State University (travel and lodging covered), deliver a public lecture and interact OSU community. Deadline: August 15, 2026.

CSR Visiting Scholar Program – Call for Applications

Visiting Scholar – Call for Applications The Center for the Study of Religion at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the continuation of our short-term visiting scholar program.

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Featuring essays by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh on "the shout," Youssef Carter on African Muslims in America, @xroadproj.bsky.social Director @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social on Eva Jessye's spirituals, Yasmine Flodin-Ali on Ahmadiyya Muslims and jazz. Web design by our own @mpgphd.bsky.social.

Peter Manseau@petermanseau.bsky.social · last mo.

Long before “under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance, some Americans claimed the US was shaped by one religion. They have always been free to believe so, but only because they are part of a larger story. The larger story is that we are a nation under many gods… www.undergods.org/preamble

The Crossroads Project invites proposals for American Crossroads Fellows Grants (up to $15,000) to create interpretive material about African American religious history and provide opportunities for community engagement. Deadline: September 1, 2026 crossroads.princeton.edu/grant-progra...

new @xroadproj.bsky.social call for proposals, y'all! grants up to $15k for "diverse knowledge makers" with "innovative projects exploring African American religious history" deadline is 1 Sept come get this money crossroads.princeton.edu/grant-progra...

Request for Proposals

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The Crossroads Project invites proposals for American Crossroads Fellows Grants (up to $15,000) to create interpretive material about African American religious history and provide opportunities for community engagement. Deadline: September 1, 2026 crossroads.princeton.edu/grant-progra...

Congratulations to @xroadproj.bsky.social Fellow Chandra Plowden, who has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Louisville Institute. You can get a taste of her work in her project on SPIRIT HOUSE (www.crossroads-spirithouse.org/plowden).

News - Louisville Institute

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Congratulations to @xroadproj.bsky.social Arts Fellow @charrisebarron.com on her forthcoming book, The Platinum Age of Gospel: The Years When Crossover Music Changed Everything!

Charrise Barron, PhD@charrisebarron.com · 2mo ago

It's my BIRTHDAY today 🥳! Thank you for all the birthday wishes...but my biggest birthday wish is that you'd PREORDER my book, The Platinum Age of Gospel: The Years When Crossover Music Changed Everything. Head to linktr.ee/CharriseBarron or my website in my bio #PlatinumAge#PlatinumAgeofGospel

October 9-10, 2026 Save the Date for the Crossroads Project conference at Princeton (and online), featuring presentations by Crossroads Project Fellows who have contributed to our SPIRIT HOUSE website.

Congratulations to @xroadproj.bsky.social Research Fellow Timothy Rainey on receiving a 2026-2027 First Book Grant from the Louisville Institute for "Black Merchant Religion: The Spirit of African American Business in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World." Check out his Crossroads work here:

Rainey | SPIRIT HOUSE

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Some exciting news for @xroadproj.bsky.social! Director @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social has received an additional grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for American Crossroads: Stories of African American Spiritual Foundings.

Henry Luce Foundation Awards New Grant to The Crossroads Project

The Crossroads Project: Black Religious Histories, Communities, and Cultures, led by Judith Weisenfeld, Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor and housed in Princeton University’s Center for Cult...

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2026 Black Cemetery Network Conference @ the University of South Florida, May 21-22, 2026.

2026 Black Cemetery Network Conference

University of South Florida

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The members of the fourth cohort of Crossroads Project Fellows are working on projects to be added to our SPIRIT HOUSE site this summer. Check out this newspaper article on Arts Fellow Vanessa Charlot's project, "Sanctuaries of the Spirit: Black Churches in Mississippi."

Missionary Union helps tell the story of Black churches in Mississippi

From generations of spiritual leaders and community builders to countless congregants, the walls of Missionary Union Baptist Church hold more than a century of history.

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This is a fantastic interview in the Harvard Divinity School Bulletin with @xroadproj.bsky.social Research Fellow @ahmadgreene.com about his excellent book, *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans.*

Descending Into the Underworld

A Q&A with Ahmad Greene-Hayes on his new book Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans. By Janan Graham-Russell

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Applications are now open for the 2026-2028 Young Scholars in American Religion cohort. Applications are due April 1, 2026. Learn more about YSAR and apply to be apart of the next cohort: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/young-schola...

My latest in the @inquirer.com today, read it for free! share.inquirer.com/talMFY

African American personal faith and organized traditions have had historic impact | Opinion

The history of faith in the African American community is not only about individual faith but also serves as a counter to the racism of religious communities in America.

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The instructors for the Black Buddhism workshop below include @xroadproj.bsky.social Community Stories Fellow Rima Vesely-Flad who contributed a project, "Uplifting Black Nichiren Buddhist Voices" to our SPIRIT HOUSE site.

Vesely-Flad | Spirit House

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Judith Weisenfeld@jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Black Buddhism Faculty Training Workshop @princetonccsr.bsky.social August 5-8, 2026. Application deadline: February 23. Focused on pedagogy in the study of Black Buddhism; conversation among scholars of African American religion and Buddhism; encouraging students to pursue Buddhist Studies.

Black Buddhism Faculty Training Workshop @princetonccsr.bsky.social August 5-8, 2026. Application deadline: February 23. Focused on pedagogy in the study of Black Buddhism; conversation among scholars of African American religion and Buddhism; encouraging students to pursue Buddhist Studies.

A lovely profile of @xroadproj.bsky.social Research Fellow @ambrelynae.bsky.social in the Cornell Chronicle. You can also view her exhibit about gospel songwriter Roxie Ann Moore on SPIRIT HOUSE. www.crossroads-spirithouse.org/dromgoole

How music galvanized the fight for civil rights | Cornell Chronicle

Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches tapped into a Black musical tradition that animated the Civil Rights Movement, says Ambre Dromgoole, assistant professor of Africana religions and music.

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Gearing up for a new semester? Did you know that @xroadproj.bsky.social's SPIRIT HOUSE gallery of 36 projects on varied aspects of Black religious histories, communities, and cultures has a teaching guide? Check it out here:

SPIRIT HOUSE

SPIRIT HOUSE invests in and celebrates the richness and abundance of Black religions as they manifest through scholarly research, artistic expression, and community building.

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The Center for Religion and Cities Presents: Faith and Justice in the City: The Black Religion Summit an online event Feb 5, 2026 from 5pm to 7pm EST Featuring @xroadproj.bsky.social Community Stories Fellow Dr. Kameelah Mu’Min Oseguera. Registration information in the link.

@xroadproj.bsky.social Community Stories Fellow Shantel George's book, The Yoruba Are on a Rock: Recaptured Africans and the Orisas of Grenada, is on #Slaveryarchive's list of the 10 best books of 2025.

@xroadproj.bsky.social staff and fellows have been busy at this year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Project Director @judithweisenfeld.com’s book *Black Religion in the Madhouse* was the subject of a round table discussion.

Check out this exhibit at Howard University on Black religious life in Gordon Parks' photography, curated by @xroadproj.bsky.social affiliate Dr. Melanee C. Harvey. It closes on December 1, 2025.

@xroadproj.bsky.social Director @judithweisenfeld.com's book, *Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake,* will be the subject of a roundtable at #aarsbl2025.

Judith Weisenfeld@jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 9mo ago

SAT 11/22 at 12:30pm | Hynes Convention Center Ballroom A I'm grateful the special session on my book at the upcoming #aarsbl2025 meeting and excited to be in conversation with Danielle N. Boaz, Jamil Drake, Terence D Keel, and Wangui Muigai. papers.aarweb.org/roundtable-s...

New projects and a teaching resources added to the Crossroads Project's online gallery at SPIRIT HOUSE! Designed by @mpgphd.bsky.social, the site features 37 original projects exploring Black religious histories, communities and cultures. 1/2 Visit the site: www.crossroads-spirithouse.org