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Course Information
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On April 7th and 8th, 2005, the Department of Religious Studies
at The University of Alabama is hosting a conference on "The
African Diaspora and the Study of Religion." Students may
register to attend this conference as a one credit hour course
and add this credit hour to their Spring 2005 enrollment.
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In order to receive this course credit, students must register
in advance, complete preparatory readings, attend the full
conference, participate in a student-only discussion at the
conference with keynote speaker Dr. Wilson
Moses, and complete writing assignments.
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For more information or instructions on how to register,
contact Dr. Catherine
Roach at croach@nc.ua.edu.
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Deadline for registration: April 4, 2005.
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Readings
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All course readings are place on the Department's secure
server, requiring a Bamamail Username and Password. If you
have forgotten your Bama ID, go here.
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"Africa
and Her People: Lecture Notes" by Alexander Crummell.
From Destiny and Race: Selected Writings, 1840-1898 /
Alexander Crummell, ed. by Wilson J. Moses.
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"Alexander
Crummell" from Encyclopedia of Protestantism
by Wilson J. Moses.
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The following articles are from Africana Studies: A Survey
of Africa and the African Diaspora, ed. by Mario Azevedo:
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Chapter
5 - Diaspora Africans and Slavery by Raymond Gavins (PDF)
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Chapter
12 - Contemporary Diaspora and the Future by Alphine
W. Jefferson (PDF)
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Chapter
22 - Religion in Africa by Mario Azevedo (PDF)
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Chapter
23 - Religion in the Diaspora by Mario Azevedo and Gregory
Davis (PDF)
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Maps
(PDF)
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Timeline
(PDF)
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Participants' papers
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Participants' papers are placed on a different secure folder;
the password for this server can be obtained from the course
instructor.
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Afe Adogame,
"Raising Champions, Taking Territories: African Churches
and the Mapping of New Religious Landscapes in Diaspora"
(PDF)
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Christine Ayorinde,
"Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution and National Identity"
(PDF)
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Angela Castaneda,
"The African Diaspora in Mexico: Santeria, Tourism, and
Representations of the State" (PDF)
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Merinda Simmons Dickens,
"'Clutching Shadows': Religion Inscribing Female Sexuality
in Nella Larsen's Quicksand" (PDF)
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Fatimah Fanusie,
"Ahmadi, Beboppers, Veterans, and Migrants: African-American
Islam in Boston, 1948-1963" (PDF)
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Kelly Hayes,
"Black Magic and the Academy: Macumba and the Construction
of Afro-Brazilian Orthodoxy" (PDF)
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Jonathon Kahn,
"Toward a Tradition of African American Pragmatic Religious
Naturalism" (PDF)
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Maha Marouan,
"Candomble, Christianity and Gnosticism in Toni Morrison's
Paradise" (PDF)
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Katherine Smith, "Understanding Diaspora Culture: African
Religious Heritage in the Caribbean"
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Maboula Soumahoro,
"The Bible and the Quran among the Rastafari and the
Nation of Islam" (PDF)
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Matthew Waggoner,
"Dis/Possession: Pentecostalism, Cultural Memory, Cultural
Theory" (PDF)
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Regennia Williams,
"R. Nathaniel Dett and African America's Christian 'Kingdom
of Culture,' 1926-1932" (PDF)
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