We will soon by featuring a set of essays on Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones’s book Immaculate Misconceptions
Authors review Immaculate Misconceptions, the first major theological work on the Black Madonna as subject.
Vincent Lloyd is a professor of theology and religious studies and director of the Center for Political Theology at Villanova University. He is the author of Black Dignity (2022), co-author of What Is Political Theology? (2025), and co-editor of Political Theology Reimagined (2025). Lloyd is editor-at-large of the journal Political Theology.
Héctor M. Varela Rios, PhD is Assistant Professor of Theology at Villanova University. His research interests explore the intersection with Latinx theology and material culture and its liberative/emancipatory aspects, especially in popular cotidiano devotional contexts.
Nicole Symmonds is the Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary and a member of the teaching faculty at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her work explores the liberative embodiment practices Black women craft as a method of resistance to domination. She has published in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Religions, and the Journal of Moral Theology. Nicole holds membership and leadership within the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Christian Ethics, the Black Catholic Theological Symposium, and the Catholic Theological Society of America. She also sits on several academic editorial and advisory boards and is a member of the Morehouse Collegium of Scholars.
TJ Bryant is a doctoral student at Duke Divinity School. His research interests include black feminism, black queer theory, critical theory, womanist and queer theologies, and psychoanalysis. His dissertation examines theologies of love and desire in relationship to libidinal economies of antiblack violence.
Symposium Essays
A Latino Man’s Reaction to a Black Woman’s Mariology
This essay is part of the book forum for Immaculate Misconceptions by Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones.
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Loving Mary with All Our Minds
This essay is part of a book forum on Immaculate Misconceptions by Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones.
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Blood, Pleasure, Antiblackness
This essay is part of a book forum on Immaculate Misconceptions by Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones.
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Virgin Mary, Virgin Territory
This essay is part of a book forum on Immaculate Misconceptions by Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones.
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