Sylvester A. JohnsonSylvester A. Johnson is Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech, and Assistant Vice Provost the Center for Humanities. He is the editor of Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories (NYU Press, 2022), FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and After 9/11 (California, 2017), and author of African American Religions, 1500–2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom (Cambridge, 2015). Read More Read Less