Ashon Crawley

{{Short description|American scholar of religion, author, and artist}}

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Ashon T. Crawley is an American religious studies scholar, author, and multidisciplinary artist. He is a professor of religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility, on aesthetics and performance as modes of social imagination,{{Cite journal|last=Scott|first=Mikana|date=2017-07-01|title=Book Review: Blackpentecostal breath: The aesthetics of possibility|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934717706973|journal=Journal of Black Studies|language=en|volume=48|issue=5|pages=528–531|doi=10.1177/0021934717706973|s2cid=152085028 |issn=0021-9347|access-date=2021-05-18|archive-date=2021-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519124811/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021934717706973|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Shelley|first=Braxton|date=2020-02-29|title=Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility|url=https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr/vol5/iss2/12|journal=Yale Journal of Music & Religion|volume=5|issue=2|doi=10.17132/2377-231X.1183|issn=2377-231X|access-date=2021-05-18|archive-date=2021-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518164311/https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr/vol5/iss2/12/|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last=Félix-Jäger|first=Steven|date=2017-01-01|title=Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility, written by Ashon T. Crawley|url=https://brill.com/view/journals/pneu/39/3/article-p391_16.xml|journal=Pneuma|language=en|volume=39|issue=3|pages=391–394|doi=10.1163/15700747-03903007|issn=0272-0965|access-date=2021-05-18|archive-date=2021-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518164324/https://brill.com/view/journals/pneu/39/3/article-p391_16.xml|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last=Johnson|first=Jasmine|date=2017|title=Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility by Ashon Crawley (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/668989|journal=Dance Research Journal|volume=49|issue=2|pages=109–111|doi=10.1017/S0149767717000274 |s2cid=193934828 |issn=1940-509X|url-access=subscription}} and The Lonely Letters, an epistolary, semi-autobiographical work.{{cite journal |last1=Chevan |first1=Jesse |title=View of Crawley, Ashon. 2020. The Lonely Letters. Durham: Duke University Press. {{!}} Current Musicology |journal=Current Musicology |date=Spring 2020 |volume=106 |url=https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/6761/3527 |access-date=18 May 2021 |archive-date=19 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519124746/https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/6761/3527 |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |last1=Pak |first1=Yumi |title=The Lonely Letters by Ashon T. Crawley (review) |journal=American Studies |date=2020 |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=57–58 |doi=10.1353/ams.2020.0017 |s2cid=242439770 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/774963/summary |access-date=18 May 2021 |issn=2153-6856|url-access=subscription }} The Lonely Letters won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction{{Cite web|title=2021 Winners|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/2021-winners/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602002521/https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/2021-winners/|archive-date=2021-06-02|access-date=2021-06-02|website=Lambda Literary|language=en}} and the Believer Book Award for Nonfiction.{{Cite web |title=2020 Believer Book Award Winners and Finalists |url=https://www.thebeliever.net/logger/2020-believer-book-award-winners-and-finalists/ |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Believer Magazine |language=en-US}} Crawley is working on a book about the Hammond organ’s historical role in Black church and social life.{{Cite web |title=Ashon Crawley |url=https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/ashon-crawley |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=Department of Religious Studies |publisher=University of Virginia |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2021-02-17 |title=Made Instrument, an Introduction |url=https://www.queensu.ca/religion/made-instrument-introduction-0 |access-date=2025-05-14 |website=School of Religion {{!}} Queen's University}}