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Selected Courses

Is Religion "T(t)rue"?
History of African American Religious Experience
Introduction to African American Studies
Criminal Justice and Moral Vision
Religion and Culture of Hip Hop
Love, Protest, and Hope
"Human Nature" and Social Change
Text Seminar: Native American Religion/s
Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies in Religion

Biography

James Logan was born in Harlem and raised in the South Bronx. He received a BA in Psychology/Pre-Law from Goshen College, an MA in theology and ethics from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, and Ph.D. in religion and society from Princeton Seminary. He is Associate Professor of Religion, and Associate Professor and Director of African and African American Studies. Logan's areas of teaching and research cover religious, philosophical and social ethics; religion and law; constructive Christian theologies; Black religion; theories of religion; and the relationships among religion, ethics and politics in civil/public life.

Research Projects

Manuscript in process tentatively titled, The Limits of Perfection: Race, Nonviolence, and Anabaptist Peace Church Assimilation into the American Social Order.

“Religion, the Natural World, and Migrations of Black Body and Soul,” in Theology and Migration in World Christianity: Contextual Perspectives (in Three Volumes), Volume I: Migration and Church in World Christianity, Editors Elaine Padilla and Peter Phan (Palgrave McMillian, in press).

Professional Memberships

American Academy of Religion
Society for the Study of Black Religion
Society of Christian Ethics

More About Me

Selected Publications:

“Healing Memory, Ontological Intimacy, and U.S. Imprisonment: Toward a Christian Politics of ‘Good Punishment’ in Civil Society," Law & Contemporary Problems. Durham, NC: Duke University School of Law, Volume 75, Number 4, 2012. Pgs. 77–86.

"A Response and Invitation to Discernment and Open Dialogue" (aka, "Religion, Environmental Racism and the Black Body") in *Violence, Transformation, and the Sacred: They Shall Be Called Children of God*, College Theology Society Annual Volume 56, edited by Margaret R. Pfeil and Tobias L. Winright (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012).

Ethics That Matters: African, Caribbean, and African American Sources, Co-Edited with Marcia Riggs (Fortress Press, 2012).

“Immanuel Kant on Categorical Imperative,” in Beyond the Pale: Reading Christian Ethics From the Margins, Eds. Miguel De La Torre and Stacey Floyd-Thomas (Westminster John Knox, 2011).

“Prisons and Prison Reform,” The Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics (Baker Academic, 2011).

“Dividing Lines: Where Prisoners Stand in the Divine Politics of Jesus,” Sojourners (February 2011).

Good Punishment? Christian Moral Practice and U.S. Imprisonment (Eerdmans, 2008).

“Liberalism, Race, and Stanley Hauerwas,” CrossCurrents (Winter 2006).

Recent Book Review: Nonviolence: A Brief History: The Warsaw Lectures by John Howard Yoder (Baylor University Press, 2010) for Theology Today (April 2011).