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Keri Day is the Elmer G. Homrighausen Chair & Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religion at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ. In 2023, she was the first African American woman to be promoted to full professor in the 212-year history at Princeton Theological Seminary. She earned a B.S. in Political Science and Economics from Tennessee State University, an M.A. in Religion and Ethics from Yale University Divinity School, and her Ph.D. in Religion from Vanderbilt University. She has authored four academic books, Unfinished Business: Black Women, The Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America (2012); Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives (2015); Notes of a Native Daughter: Testifying in Theological Education (2021); and her most recent book, Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging, (2022). She has been recognized by NBC News as one of six black women at the center of gravity in theological education in America.
Womanist/Feminist theologies, Social Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Economics, Afro-Pentecostalism
Spirit Amid Diaspora: A Theology of Spirit (working manuscript)
Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022)
Notes of A Native Daughter: Testifying in Theological Education (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2021)
Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).
Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2012).
“Revolutionary Black Motherhood Beyond Resistance?,” in Open Casket: Philosophical Meditations on the Lynching of Emmett Till, Eds. George Yancy and Todd Franklin. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 157-168.
“Queering Azusa,” in PentecoStudies: Online Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Vol. 23, Issue 1 (2025), 41-56.
“Queering Black Pentecostalism in the United States,” in Remaking the Pentecostal World, eds. Michael Wilkinson and Jorg Haustein. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. 264-274.
“Religious Ethics and the Spirit of Undomesticated Dissent,” in Journal of Religious Ethics, March 2, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/jore.12424
“Rethinking Hope: The Importance of Radical Racial Realism for Womanist Religious Thought” in Racism and Resistance: Essays on Derrick Bell’s Racial Realism. Ed. Timothy Golden. SUNY Press: November 2022. 195-214.
“The Politics of Azusa: Transforming Citizenship at the Margins,” in Political Theology, July 7, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2021.1941651
“The Future of Sexual Inclusion: Anti-Black Racism, Black Patriarchy, and Prospects for Political Democracy,” Crosscurrents Journal, Vol. 68, Issue1, February 25, 2018, 21-37.
“I am Dark and Lovely”: Let the Shulammite Woman Speak, Black Theology: An International Journal (2018), DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2018.1492300
“When White is the ‘New Black’: Religious Populism in the Age of Obama,” in Religion in the Age of Obama. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018. 131-141.
“Challenging a New Frontier in Market Morality: The Case of Sweatshop Economics,” in Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality. Eds. Ted Smith and Robert Jones. New York: Routledge Press, 2017. 157-172.
“A Conversation on Freedom: Buddhist and Womanist Thought” in Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies. Fall 2016.
“African American Theology and Doctrines of God,” in The Oxford Handbook of African-American Theology, eds. Anthony Pinn and Katie Cannon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014: 139-152.
“Daughters, Arise: Celebrating African Feminist Christologies,” in the Journal of Africana Religions, Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 2014: 385-394.
“What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Lovelessness Within the Sorted-Out City,” in the Journal of Religion, Race, and Ethnicity, January 2014, Vol. 5/Issue One: 1-34.
“Saving Black America?: A Womanist Analysis of Faith Based Initiatives,” in The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2013: 63-81.
“African American Liberative Ethics” in Ethics: A Liberative Approach, ed. Miguel de la Torre. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013: 109-126.
“The Ambiguities of Neighbor-Love: Reading ‘Agape’ From the Margins,” in Beyond the Pale: Reading Christian Ethics from the Margins, eds. Miguel de la Torre and Stacey Floyd-Thomas. Westminster John Knox Press, 2011: 161-168.
“Global Economics and US Public Policy: Prospects on the Means and Ends of Liberation for the Global Poor,” Black Theology: An International Journal, Issue 9:1, June 2011: 9-33.
“Global Political Economy & Its Neo-Colonial Vices: Postcolonial Theological Reflections on Economic Justice” in Journal of Postcolonial Networks, Vol. V, No. 2, Issue 21, Winter 2011: 1-16.
“Forging Community and Communitas: Toward a De-Masculinization of Christology in Black Churches” in Walk Together Children: Black and Womanist Theologies, Churches, and Theological Education, eds. Dwight Hopkins and Linda Thomas, Cascade Books, 2010: 24-42.
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