{"id":9459,"date":"2022-02-08T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=9459"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:21:52","slug":"margarita-guillory","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/faculty\/margarita-guillory\/","title":{"rendered":"Margarita Guillory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Margarita Simon Guillory<\/b><span>\u00a0teaches courses on American religious history, Africana religions, digital religion, and religion in popular culture. Her publications include\u00a0<\/span><i>Africana Religion in the Digital Age<\/i><span>\u00a0(Routledge, 2024),\u00a0<\/span><i>Social and Spiritual Transformation in African American Spiritual Churches<\/i><span>\u00a0(Routledge 2017) and\u00a0<\/span><i>Esotericism in African American Religious Experience<\/i><span>\u00a0(Brill 2014). In addition to these works, she has published articles in the\u00a0<\/span><i>Journal of Gnostic Studies<\/i><span>,\u00a0<\/span><i>The Black Scholar<\/i><span>,\u00a0<\/span><i>Culture and Religion<\/i><span>, and\u00a0<\/span><i>Pastoral Psychology<\/i><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/files\/2021\/08\/Guillory_Abbreviated-CV_2021.pdf\">Current CV<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Books<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Africana-Religion-in-the-Digital-Age\/Guillory\/p\/book\/9780367367817?srsltid=AfmBOooSI9qU9vWqc981_NiqYL_CritHiAKUbThL0sAvjqzU5RLB011n\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/religion\/files\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2025-05-14-at-3.45.26\u202fPM-413x636.png\" alt=\"image of book cover for Africana Religion in the Digital Age, text on a white box over a light blue background.\" width=\"214\" height=\"330\" class=\"wp-image-11806 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/files\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2025-05-14-at-3.45.26\u202fPM-413x636.png 413w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/files\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2025-05-14-at-3.45.26\u202fPM-665x1024.png 665w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/files\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2025-05-14-at-3.45.26\u202fPM-390x600.png 390w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/files\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2025-05-14-at-3.45.26\u202fPM.png 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><em> Africana Religion in the Digital Age<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Margarita Guillory<\/p>\n<p>Routledge<\/p>\n<p>2025<\/p>\n<p>Buy it now from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Africana-Religion-in-the-Digital-Age\/Guillory\/p\/book\/9780367367817?srsltid=AfmBOooSI9qU9vWqc981_NiqYL_CritHiAKUbThL0sAvjqzU5RLB011n\">Routledge<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Spiritual-and-Social-Transformation-in-African-American-Spiritual-Churches\/Guillory\/p\/book\/9781138307162\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"278\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/files\/2018\/08\/Guillorybook.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7761 alignleft\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 275px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Spiritual-and-Social-Transformation-in-African-American-Spiritual-Churches\/Guillory\/p\/book\/9781138307162\"><em>Spiritual and Social Transformation in African American Spiritual Churches<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nBy Margarita Simon Guillory<br \/>\n<span itemprop=\"brand\">Routledge<\/span><br \/>\n2017<br \/>\nBuy it now from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Spiritual-and-Social-Transformation-in-African-American-Spiritual-Churches\/Guillory\/p\/book\/9781138307162\">Routledge!<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Esotericism-African-American-Religious-Experience\/dp\/9004283099\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"193\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/files\/2018\/08\/Guillory-book.1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\" wp-image-7763 alignleft\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 275px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Esotericism-African-American-Religious-Experience\/dp\/9004283099\"><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\"><em>Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: \u201cThere Is a Mystery\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBy Stephen Finley, Margarita Guillory, Hugh Page Jr.<br \/>\nBrill<br \/>\n2014<br \/>\nBuy it now from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Esotericism-African-American-Religious-Experience\/dp\/9004283099\">Amazon<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1630,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11808,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9459\/revisions\/11808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}