She Refuses To Be Comforted: Black Theology and A Mary Who Cries

The Stead Center and the Center for the Church and Black Experience welcome Rev. Dr. Amney Victoria Adkins-Jones for a Lunch and Learn, where she will discuss her book, Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology.

Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones is Assistant Professor of Theology and Africana studies at Candler School of Theology (Emory University). A graduate of the University of Virginia and Duke Divinity School, she received her Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University in 2016 with a Certificate in Feminist Theory. She was the first Black woman to graduate from the doctoral program in Christian theology and ethics.

Her first book, Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology centers the Black Madonna to examine how Christian theologies of purity influence who and what we deem to be sacred. She is at work on a second book project, See No Evil, which explores how visual technologies and AI impact public perception of violence and Black death.

Outside of academia, Rev. Dr. Adkins-Jones is an ordained Baptist minister who frequently preaches and teaches around the country, and brings pastoral sensibility to her work centering social justice. She shares life with her beloved spouse and their four children in Atlanta, GA.