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Participants
Apart from Profs. Moses and Glaude, the list of invited participants--comprising
senior doctoral students, Lecturers, and Assistant Professors--and
their paper titles appear below (in alphabetical order).
A PDF version of each paper is placed on the Department's
"secure server." Clicking on the paper titles will
prompt users to enter their password to access the papers.
Dr. Afe Adogame
University
of Bayreuth, Germany
"Raising Champions,
Taking Territories: African Churches and the Mapping of New
Religious Landscapes in Diaspora" (PDF)
Dr. Christine Ayorinde
The
Open University, UK
"Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution and National Identity" (PDF)
Dr. Angela Castaneda
DePauw
University
"The African Diaspora in Mexico: Santeria, Tourism, and Representations
of the State" (PDF)
Merinda Simmons Dickens
"'Clutching Shadows': Religion Inscribing Female Sexuality in Nella Larsen's
Quicksand" (PDF)
Fatimah Fanusie
Howard
University
"Ahmadi, Beboppers, Veterans,
and Migrants: African-American Islam in Boston, 1948-1963" (PDF)
Dr. Kelly Hayes
Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis
"Black Magic and the Academy: Macumba and the Construction
of Afro-Brazilian Orthodoxy" (PDF)
Dr. Jonathon Kahn
Columbia
University
"Toward a Tradition of African American Pragmatic Religious Naturalism" (PDF)
Maha Marouan
University
of Nottingham, UK
"Candomble, Christianity and Gnosticism in Toni Morrison's
Paradise" (PDF); in the Fall of 2005 Dr. Marouan
began working at the University of Alabama. Visit her website
here.
Katherine Smith
Howard
University
"Understanding Diaspora Culture: African Religious Heritage
in the Caribbean"
Maboula Soumahoro
Universite
Francois Rabelais, France
"The Bible and the Quran among the Rastafari and the Nation
of Islam" (PDF)
Matthew Waggoner
Albertus
Magnus College
"Dis/Possession: Pentecostalism, Cultural Memory, Cultural Theory" (PDF)
Dr. Regennia Williams
Cleveland
State University
"R. Nathaniel Dett and African America's Christian 'Kingdom of Culture,'
1926-1932" (PDF)
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