Jay-Paul M. Hinds

Profile
Jay-Paul M. Hinds is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He received his Doctorate of Philosophy in Religion and Certificate of Psychoanalytic Studies from Emory University, with a concentration in religious practices and practical theology. He earned his Master of Divinity and Master of Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Hinds received his Bachelor of Arts: Religion, cum laude, from Felician College.

Before returning to Princeton Seminary, Jay-Paul M. Hinds served as assistant professor of pastoral care, practical theology, and psychology of religion at Howard University School of Divinity.

Select Publications

• “The Son's Fault: Martin Luther King Jr's Search for and Recovery of Sonship,” Journal of Religion and Health, 57, no. 2 (2018): 451–69.
• “A Gift Grows in the Ghetto: Reimagining the Spiritual Diagnosis of Black Men,” Pastoral Psychology, 67, no. 2 (2018): 141–54.
• “Shame and Its Sons: Black Men, Fatherhood and Filicide,” Pastoral Psychology, 63, no. 5-6 (2014): 641–58.
• “Redemptive Prose: Richard Wright's Re-Authoring of the Patricidal Urtext,” Pastoral Psychology, vol. 62, no. 5 (2013): 687–707.
• “The Prophet's Wish: A Freudian Interpretation of Martin Luther King's Dream,” Pastoral Psychology, vol. 61, no. 4 (2012): 467–84.
• “Traces on the Blackboard: The Vestiges of Racism on the African American Psyche,” Pastoral Psychology, vol. 59, no. 6 (2010): 783–98.