Dew’s work explores ways contemporary religion imagines and engages race, state power, and law. He is interested in religious movements that are popularly misrepresented, even criminalized, both in order to offer a corrective to such misunderstandings and out of a sense that subaltern social locations lead to insightful theorizing from members of these movements. His most recent book was a study of the Moorish Science Temple of America and related movements, while he current book project focuses on the diasporic Taino movement, a movement of indigenous revival among those of Caribbean descent here in the US. Dew’s research is particularly focused on vernacular publications, from self-published books to digital publications online. His teaching, similarly, focuses on serious engagement with such vernacular sources of contemporary religious thought.