Clarence Hardy

professor, religion, Dartmouth University

Hardy specializes in American religious culture and contemporary Christian thought with a special emphasis on black religious culture and thought. Hardy is the author of James Baldwin's *God: Sex, Hope and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture*. He is currently at work on a book tentatively entitled: *We Grappled for the Mysteries: Black God-Talk in Modern America* which will span the 1920s through the civil rights period and consider how black descriptions of the divine have evolved in the modern period.