DEVIN SINGH, Author of DIVINE CURRENCY and the forthcoming SACRED DEBT - September 24, 2024

Singh shares insights about the surprising ways religion and debt have long been interconnected. He reveals how religious language has helped to enforce debt relations and shares concerns about the effects of economic indebtedness in our communities.

Devin Singh is an Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on modern religious thought in the West, social ethics, and the philosophy of religion. He is the author of DIVINE CURRENCY: The Theological Power of Money in the West (Stanford 2018), which reveals the ancient interconnection between money and Christian doctrine, and Economy and Modern Christian Thought (Brill 2022). Singh's next book, titled SACRED DEBT, explores the power of debt in society and its longstanding uses in religion. His work has appeared in Time, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Journal of Religious Ethics, Implicit Religion, Harvard Theological Review, Political Theology, and Religions.