Co-Authored Books

CERCL Writing Collective, Embodiment and Black Religion: Rethinking the Body in African American Religious Experience. London: Equinox Publishing (2017).

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Edited Volumes

with Tanya Cheadle, eds. Esotericism and Normativity: The Regulation of Sex, Race, and Gender in Modern Alternative Spirituality. Manchester: Manchester University Press (under contract, 2027).

 

with David Kline, eds. Words Made Flesh: Sylvia Wynter and Religion. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025.

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Journal Articles

“White Esotericisms? New Directions in the Study of Race and Esotericism.” Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism 11:2 (2024): 283-313.          

 

“What’s in a Name? On Esotericism, Race, and the Politics of Classification: A Response to ‘Redefining Esotericism.’” Aries 24:2 (2024): 214-218

 

 “Blue Black Ecstasy: Ellen Gallagher’s Watery Ecstatic, Oceanic Feeling, and Mysticism in the Flesh.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 91:2 (2024), 302-325.

 

“Charles H. Long’s Significations (1986), or, Making Problems for the Study of Religion in the Netherlands.” NTT JTSR 77:1 (2023), 34-48.

 

with Aren Roukema, “10 Years of Correspondences or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Esotericism Studies.” Correspondences 10:2 (2022), 235-255.

 

 “Locating the Oceanic in Sylvia Wynter’s ‘Demonic Ground.’” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 21:1 (2022), 1-22.

 

 “Hidden Presence: Race and/in the History, Construct and Study of Western Esotericism.” Religion 50:4 (2020), 479-503.

 

Book Chapters​

“(Para)religious Traces in Sylvia Wynter’s ‘Demonic Ground.’” In Words Made Flesh: Sylvia Wynter and Religion, edited by Justine Bakker and David Kline, 97-126. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025.

 

with David Kline. "Introduction: Sylvia Wynter and Religion.” In Words Made Flesh: Sylvia Wynter and Religion, edited by Bakker and Kline, 1-18. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025.

 

“Race and (the Study of) Esotericism." In New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism, edited by Egil Asprem and Julian Strube, 147-167. Leiden: Brill, 2020).

 

“Esotericism, that’s for white folks, right?” In Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Western Esotericism, edited by Wouter Hanegraaff, Peter Forshaw and Marco Pasi, 22-28. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

 

“On the Knowledge of Self and Others: Secrecy, Concealment and Revelation in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam.” In Esotericism in African American Religious Experience, edited by Stephen C. Finley, Margarita S. Guillory and Hugh R. Page, 138-151. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

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Entries in Reference Works

Accepted: “Race." In Oxford Handbook of Esotericism, edited by Henrik Bogdan. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

 

Accepted: “Blue Religion.” In Bloomsbury Handbook for the Blue Humanities, edited by Steve Mentz, Mohammed Muharram, Serpil Oppermann, and Sandra Young. London: Bloomsbury Publishing (forthcoming 2026).

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Book Reviews

Nathan Snaza. Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man (Duke University Press, 2024). Aries (advance publication).

 

Jenny Rice. Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence (The Ohio State University, 2020). Aries 25:1 (2023): 134-138.

 

Michael Muhammad Knight, Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community (Penn State University Press, 2020). Reading Religion.

 

Jacob Dorman. The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America (Beacon Press, 2020). Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft 16:3 (2021): 425-9.

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Paul Youngquist. A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

(University of Texas Press, 2016). Correspondences 5 (2017): 121-6.

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Angel Millar. The Crescent and the Compass: Islam, Freemasonry, Esotericism, and Revolution in the Modern Age (Numen, 2014). Correspondences 3 (2015): 156-9.

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Digital Media & Public Scholarship

 “On COP26 and the Need for Parareligion.” For Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge. November 23, 2021.

 

 “Blue Religion.” For Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge. November 17, 2020. 

 

 “Covid-19 and Environmental Racism in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’.” For Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge. May 13, 2020.

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“Offshore: Descending into the Blue Humanities.” For Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge. November 6, 2019.

 

“Blended/ing Religion.” Response to interview with Dr. Margarita Simon Guillory. Religious Studies Project (RSP). January 31, 2018.