{"id":10375,"date":"2019-02-08T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-staging.bu.edu\/amnesp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10375"},"modified":"2024-07-30T16:08:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T20:08:43","slug":"margarita-guillory","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/profile\/margarita-guillory\/","title":{"rendered":"Margarita Guillory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Areas<\/strong>:\u00a0American religious history;\u00a0<span>identity\u00a0<\/span><span>construction in Africana esoteric religions; religion and technology; digital religion; religion and popular culture<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Margarita Simon Guillory teaches courses on American religious history, digital<\/span><br \/>\n<span>religion, and religion and popular culture. Her research interests include identity<\/span><br \/>\n<span>construction in Africana esoteric religions, religion and technology, and social scientific<\/span><br \/>\n<span>approaches to religion. She is the author of\u00a0<\/span><em>Social and Spiritual Transformation in<\/em><br \/>\n<em>African American Spiritual Churches<\/em><span>\u00a0(Routledge 2017) and co-editor of\u00a0<\/span><em>Esotericism in<\/em><br \/>\n<em>African American Religious Experience<\/em><span>\u00a0(Brill 2014). In addition to these works, she has<\/span><br \/>\n<span>published articles in the\u00a0<\/span><em>Journal of Gnostic Studies, Culture and Religion, and Pastoral<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Psychology<\/em><span>. Her current project,\u00a0<\/span><em>Africana Religion in the Digital Age<\/em><span>, considers how<\/span><br \/>\n<span>African Americans utilize the Internet, social media, mobile applications, and gaming to<\/span><br \/>\n<span>forge new ways to express their religious identities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Spiritual-and-Social-Transformation-in-African-American-Spiritual-Churches\/Guillory\/p\/book\/9781138307162\"><i>Spiritual and Social Transformation in African American Spiritual Churches <\/i><\/a>(Routledge, 2017).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Esotericism-African-American-Religious-Experience\/dp\/9004283099\"><i>Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: &#8220;there Is a Mystery.&#8221; <\/i><\/a>(Brill Academic Pub, 2014).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a detailed academic bio and CV, please see Professor Guillory&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/margarita-guillory\/\">Department Profile<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11572,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11391,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10375\/revisions\/11391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}