Vincent Lloyd

Assistant Professor of Religion

Syracuse University

Vincent

previously I taught at Georgia State University and Emory University

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I research and teach about the philosophy of religion, religion and politics, and race. My CV is here. My e-mail address is vwlloyd[at]syr.edu. My current research concerns natural law in African American political thought.

Research

Books

The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology (Stanford University Press, 2011) (overview) (contents) (introduction) (publisher page)
Law and Transcendence: On the Unfinished Project of Gillian Rose (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) (publisher page)

Edited Volumes

Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh, with Molly Bassett (Routledge, Forthcoming)
Marcuse After Secularism (Special Issue of Telos, Forthcoming)
Race and Political Theology (Stanford University Press, 2012) (publisher page) (introduction)
Secular Faith, Co-Edited with Elliot Ratzman (Special Issue of Soundings, 2009; expanded edition from Cascade Books, 2010) (publisher page) (overview) (contents)

Articles

"Race and Religion," Critical Research in Religion, 2013 (draft pdf)
"Paradox and Tradition in Black Theology," Black Theology: An International Journal, 2011 (draft pdf)
"Black Secularism and Black Theology," Theology Today, 2011 (draft pdf)
"How Democracy Hurts," The Good Society, Special Issue on Democracy, Secularism, and Pluralism, 2010 (draft pdf)
"Love, Justice, and Natural Law: On Martin Luther King, Jr. and Human Rights," for Human Rights from a Third World Perspective, edited by Jose-Manuel Barreto, forthcoming (penultimate draft pdf)
"Violence: Religious, Theological, Ontological," discussing William T. Cavanaugh's Myth of Religious Violence, forthcoming in Theory, Culture, & Society (penultimate draft pdf)
"Political Theology of the Ordinary," discussing Bonnie Honig's Emergency Politics, Political Theology 11:4 (2010) (penultimate draft pdf)
"Secular Faith As Tragic Faith" (with Elliot Ratzman), in Secular Faith (penultimate draft pdf)
"Gillian Rose: Making Kierkegaard Difficult Again," Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy, volume 11 of Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources (2012) (penultimate draft pdf)
"Liturgy in the Broadest Sense," New Blackfriars (forthcoming) (abstract; penultimate draft pdf)
"Complex Space or Broken Middle? Milbank, Rose, and the Sharia Controversy" in Theology and Democratic Futures, Special Issue of Political Theology 10:2 (2009) (penultimate draft pdf)
"Michel Houellebecq and the Theological Virtues," Literature and Theology (2009) (penultimate draft pdf)
"Interview with Gillian Rose," Edited and Introduced, Theory, Culture and Society 25:7-8 (2008) (penultimate draft pdf)
"Law, Grace, and Race: The Political Theology of Manderlay," Theory & Event 11:3 (2008) (penultimate draft pdf)
"The Secular Faith of Gillian Rose," Journal of Religious Ethics 36:4 (2008) (penultimate draft pdf)
"On Gillian Rose and Love," Telos 143 (2008) (penultimate draft pdf) (accompanying interview online)
"On Saying Yes: Perversion and the Sacred," The Symptom 8 (2007)
"On the Use of Gillian Rose," The Heythrop Journal 48:5 (2007) (penultimate draft pdf)
"Steve Biko and the Subversion of Race," Philosophia Africana 6:2 (2003)

Selected Reviews

of John Lardas Modern, Secularism in Antebellum America, for Political Theology (Forthcoming, here)
"A Critical Introduction to Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory," introducing review symposium, for Political Theology (2013, penultimate draft here).
"The Rhetoric of Political Theology," discussing Paul Kahn's Political Theology, for Political Theology (2012, penultimate draft here).
"Rhetoric, Class, and Christ," discussing The Monstrosity of Christ, for Qui Parle (2010, penultimate draft here).
"What Taylor Misses," discussing Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, for The Immanent Frame (2010, here).
"The Politics of Tonto," discussing William Connolly's Capitalism and Christianity, and Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles' Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary, for New Formations (2009)
of David Kyuman Kim, Melancholic Freedom, for Political Theology (2009, here)
of Jean-Luc Marion, The Erotic Phenomenon, for Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (2009)
of Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope, for Political Theology (2008)
"Resisting Sophistry," discussing Talal Asad's On Suicide Bombing and Jacqueline Rose's The Last Resistance, for New Formations (2008)
of Alain Badiou, Being and Event, for Law, Culture, and the Humanities (2007)