Exploring the Interconnection of Theology and Life
The Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia is a research community, whose mission is to study the social consequences of theological ideas for the sake of a more just and compassionate world.
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Vincent Lloyd on Frantz Fanon and Religion – A PLT Symposium
By Charles Marsh
On April 2, 2026, Professor Vincent Lloyd of Villanova University paid a virtual visit to my undergraduate course Religion 3730, “Conversations in Religion”.
In his lecture, Professor Lloyd focused on Fanon’s ideas about religion, violence, and the tradition of Black atheism – and pressed the question of how religious languages of reconciliation and more radical, abolitionist gestures of uprooting domination collide in Fanon’s account of decolonization.
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Can I Get a Witness – People Get Ready
The Project on Lived Theology has recently completed a two-volume biographical history of the Christian Left in the United States. To read these vivid theological lives is to encounter a form of Christian conviction that is at once Christ-centered and worldly.
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God’s Long Summer Becomes a Princeton Classic
Charles Marsh takes us back to this place and time, when the lives of activists on all sides of the civil rights issue converged and their images of God clashed.