William David Hart

William David Hart (PhD, Princeton University, 1994) is professor of religious studies and department head at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Hart is a “critical theorist of religion” whose interests include the construction of religion and its ethical-political uses.  He is the author of three books:  Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (Cambridge, 2000), Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis (Palgrave, 2008), and Afro-Eccentricity: Beyond the Standard Narrative of Black Religion (2011). Hart is an affiliate of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Program.