AFRC5600 - Creating Black Sacred Cultures: Readings in African American Religious History

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Creating Black Sacred Cultures: Readings in African American Religious History
Term
2024A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC5600401
Course number integer
5600
Meeting times
T 3:30 PM-6:29 PM
Meeting location
BENN 322
Level
graduate
Instructors
Vaughn A Booker
Description
This graduate seminar entertains the history of African American cultural production primarily in the twentieth century through foundational and emerging works in the field. This seminar focuses on African American religious history, with a focus on the material, visual, auditory, and literary religious constructions of everyday worlds, lives, and professions. Our readings attend to intersectional dimensions of African American religious life, highlighting the connections of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, class, alternative religious identities, and region.
A focus on Black cultural production and its producers enriches African American religious history. Seminar participants will engage the theoretical concerns and methodological approaches that illuminate the ways that Black women and men capture and (re)shape the meaning of their worlds in a variety of domestic, professional, social, and political settings. The seminar’s primary aims are to help participants define interests within the field to pursue further study, to consider potential areas of research, and to aid preparation for doctoral examinations.
Course number only
5600
Cross listings
RELS5600401
Use local description
No