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Valerie Cooper

Valerie Cooper

Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Black Church Studies
Divinity School
valerie.cooper@duke.edu
Duke PO Box 90968, Durham, NC 27708-0968

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Black Church Studies · 2014 - Present Divinity School

In the News

Published November 20, 2015
Valerie Cooper quoted: The religious fundamentalists are losing
Published September 22, 2015
Valerie Cooper comments: Israel courts African-American evangelicals, despite some hurdles
Published June 30, 2015
Valerie Cooper quoted: The deep racial division in American churches

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Recent Publications

MARIA STEWART'S BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

Chapter · July 18, 2023 A Black woman who was born free in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1803, Maria Stewart is widely believed to be the first American woman of any race to have given a political speech to an audience including both men and women and to have left copies of her texts ... Full text Cite

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Change Our Future Teaching

Journal Article Religion and American Culture · June 1, 2020 Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications

Harvard University · 2004 D.Th.