Leonard Cornell McKinnis II is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Religion and African American Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project.
McKinnis's writing style is clear and inviting. . . . This book is poised to make a major contribution to American and African American religious studies. -- Wallace D. Best, author of Langston's Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem The book makes original contributions to our understanding of Black religious diversity, providing a theological portrait of an unexamined Black new religious movement and engaging the Black Coptic Church as a lens on religion and race in America. -- Judith Weisenfeld, Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Princeton University Contributes valuably to underscoring the diversity of African American religious diversity. -- Charles A. Price, Temple University