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Program
Each panel is chaired by a different faculty member of the
University of Alabama, either from its Department of Religious
Studies or one of the co-sponsoring units.
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.
Thursday, April 7, 2005
Keynote Address
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Introduction: Theodore Trost, Department of
Religious Studies, University of Alabama
Keynote Address: Wilson Jeremiah Moses, Pennsylvania
State University, "Christian Nation Building, in Liberia:
Alexander Crummell and the Democratic Myth"
Friday, April 8, 2005
Panel 1
Africa in Diaspora
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Presiding: Josephine Nhongo-Simbanegavi, Bankhead
Fellow, Department of History, University of Alabama
Afe Adogame, University of Bayreuth, Germany,
"Raising Champions, Taking Territories: African Churches and
the Mapping of New Religious Landscapes in Diaspora"
Fatimah Fanusie, Howard University,
"Ahmadi, Beboppers, Veterans, and Migrants: African-American
Islam in Boston, 1948-1963"
Maboula Soumahoro, Universite Francois Rabelais-Tours, France,
"The Bible and the Quran among the Rastafari and the Nation
of Islam"
Panel 2
Diaspora in Literature and Culture
10:15-11:45 a.m.
Presiding: James Hall, Director of New College,
University of Alabama
Merinda Simmons Dickens, The University of Alabama,
"'Clutching Shadows': Religion Inscribing Female Sexuality
in Nella Larsen's Quicksand"
Maha Marouan, University of Nottingham, England,
"Candomble, Christianity and Gnosticism in Toni Morrison's
Paradise"
Regennia N. Williams, Cleveland State University,
"R. Nathaniel Dett and African America's Christian 'Kingdom
of Culture,' 1926-1932"
Lunch
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch is included with your registration.
Panel 3
Diaspora in Latin America
1:15-2:45 p.m.
Presiding: Amilcar Shabazz, Department of American
Studies and Director of the African American Studies Program,
University of Alabama
Christine Ayorinde, The Open University, England,
"Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution and National Identity"
Angela N. Castañeda, DePauw University,
"The African Diaspora in Mexico: Santeria, Tourism, and Representations
of the State"
Katherine A. Smith, Howard University, "Understanding Diaspora
Culture: African Religious Heritage in the Caribbean"
Panel 4
Diaspora in Theory
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Presiding: Jennifer Purvis, Department of Women's
Studies, University of Alabama
Kelly Hayes, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,
"Black Magic and the Academy: Macumba and the Construction
of Afro-Brazilian Orthodoxy"
Matthew Waggoner, Albertus Magnus College,
"Dis/Possession: Pentecostalism, Cultural Memory, Cultural
Theory"
Jonathon Kahn, Columbia University,
"Toward a Tradition of African American Pragmatic Religious
Naturalism"
Concluding Remarks
4:45-5:30 p.m.
Introduction: Tim Murphy, Department of Religious
Studies, University of Alabama
Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University, "'Africa' in the Study
of African American Religion"
Farewell
Russell McCutcheon, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies,
University of Alabama
Refreshments will be available throughout
the conference.
Following the conference, a dinner for those invited to present
papers, the presiders, organizers, and invited representatives
of each of the co-sponsoring units, will be held at the University
Club, beginning at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, April 8, 2005.
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