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In this article, I outline what Kristie Dotson refers to as an “inheritance map” for the epistemological insights and critical moves in Victor Anderson’s  Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism  (1995). I establish that  Beyond Ontological Blackness  represents what Stuart Hall calls a significant break – “where old lines of thought are disrupted, older constellations displaced, and elements, old and new, are regrouped around a different set of premises and themes”11Hall, “Cultural Studies."– and thusly, a new direction in the study of black22In my current writing projects (post 2019) I use Black (rather than black) and white for political reasons. Full stop. I deploy a “b” when engaging oppression, however. Still, making distinctions in this essay between what should have a “B” (for example, Black women, church, students, presence, subject, religion, experience, etc.) and what should have a “b” (for example, antiblack, ontological blackness, symbolic blackness, black heroic cultural genius, black crisis, etc.) proved extremely difficult. Most challenging was turning my powerful “B” into a “b” throughout for clarity and consistency.religion and theology33This is not slippage. I distinguish between black theology and the study of black religion at length in  Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture  (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018).: black religion and culture studies. The latter of which makes room for a black feminist study of religion. Hall, “Cultural Studies." In my current writing projects (post 2019) I use Black (rather than black) and white for political reasons. Full stop. I deploy a “b” when engaging oppression, however. Still, making distinctions in this essay between what should have a “B” (for example, Black women, church, students, presence, subject, religion, experience, etc.) and what should have a “b” (for example, antiblack, ontological blackness, symbolic blackness, black heroic cultural genius, black crisis, etc.) proved extremely difficult. Most challenging was turning my powerful “B” into a “b” throughout for clarity and consistency. This is not slippage. I distinguish between black theology and the study of black religion at length in  Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture  (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018).

A Black Feminist Study of Religion: Inheriting Victor Anderson’s Black Religious and Cultural Criticism