Is social justice replacing religion in the West?
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Michael Eric Dyson
Distinguished university professor of African American and diaspora studies, Vanderbilt University
Michael Eric Dyson is an ordained Baptist minister and a scholar of race, religion and contemporary culture. Born into a working-class family in Detroit, he was ordained at age 19 at Detroit’s historic Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church. After working in factories to support his family, Dyson entered college at 21 and earned his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Carson-Newman College, followed by a Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University. He is currently a distinguished university professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and distinguished university professor of ethics and society in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, where he holds the NEH Centennial Chair. Dyson is the author of over 25 books, including seven New York Times bestsellers. As a preacher for over 40 years, Dyson has delivered sermons at many of the nation’s most noted pulpits.
