Shayne Lee is associate professor of sociology at the University of Houston.
Packed with astute readings -- of films, of the Black experience, and of scholarship on modern religion -- this book challenges us to see the way cinema has been a creative arena of reflection on how a 'sidelined' divine sovereign can be both present and absent in Black suffering. This is a critical contribution to how we think about the presence of spiritual realities in everyday life. --Nancy T. Ammerman, Professor Emerita, Boston University