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Description
The conference will take place on April 7 and 8, 2005, at
the University of Alabama's Bryant
Conference Center, and will focus on the place of African
cultures within the academic study of religion--including,
but not limited to, indigenous African religions, African
Christianities, African forms of Islam, religions of African-Americans,
Afro-Caribbean religions, and Afro-Brazilian religions.
The conference--which highlights the work of young scholars--will
investigate such questions as:
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In what ways has the academic study of religion contributed
to the understanding of the cultures of Africa?
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In what ways has the academy neglected Africa and its
influences--and at what cost, socially, epistemologically,
politically, racially, and culturally?
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What contribution to our knowledge of religion as an
aspect of human culture can be made by the study of African
history and its contemporary societies?
How do current studies of African and African-diaspora cultures
reflect or contest methodological or theoretical issues of
contemporary concern in the social sciences and the humanities
more broadly?
Given the topics that are scheduled to be addressed by our
invited participants,
this conference will be of interest to a number of people,
both on the campus of the University of Alabama as well as
in the surrounding area.
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