Professor of Religious Studies Mary Beth Mathews
Professor of Religious Studies Mary Beth Mathews was recently featured in the African American Intellectual History Society’s (AAHSI) “The ‘Sinners’ Movie Syllabus.” In the May 2025 Black Perspectives newsletter, Dr. Jemar Tisby and Dr. Keisha N. Blain included Mathews’ 2017 book, Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism Between the Wars in the curated educational resource for instructors who wish to contextualize the recent film Sinners, released earlier this year. Such interdisciplinary syllabi help foster critical inquiry and dialogue about popular culture and recent events.