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In Season 2, Episode 5, podcast host welcomes co-editors and contributors of the special issue of the African Journal of Gender and Religion entitled "Black Women's Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany & Steepled Towers."

Co-editors:
Dr. CL Nash is a Political Theology Research Felow at the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science and a recent recipient of the prestigioous JIAS Writing Fellowship. Nash directs the Misogynoir to Mishpat ("hatred of Black women to justice") Research Network.

Dr. Geeta Patel is an interdisciplinary scholar, poet/translator, curator, and writer-activist, with degrees in three sciences, philosophy, and South Asian Studies. Institutional Affiliation: University of Virginia

Contributors:
Dr. Anna Perkins ("On/Unstained White Dress(es)...: Afro- Caribbean Female Purity in Sacred Spaces in Three Caribbean Women Poets") is a Senior Programme Officer with the Quality Assurance Unit, Office of the Board for Undergraduate Studies, University of the West Indies. Perkins earned a PhD in ethics.

Dr. Clementine Nishimwe ("Doing Church Differently: Crafting a Church Using the Circle's Theologizing Methodologies in a Xenophobic and Gendered Context") is a postdoctoral researcher at Åbo Akademi University in Finland.

Dr. Claudette Anderson ("Obeah/Obia by Igbo Spelling: Affirming the Value of After God is Dibia") is Executive Director and Professor of Ọbịa at Unụchi Foundation, an Afro-Atlantic Religious Reparations nonprofit.

You can find the petition mentioned in the podcast on Change.org under Repeal 1898 Obeah Law.

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