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REL 237
African American Religions and Religions of the African Diaspora

Notice addressed to the
Universal Negro Association advertising repatriation in Africa (1924)

Professor
Dr. Maha Marouan
mmarouan@bama.ua.edu

Office: Manly 205
Phone: 348-8685
Office Hours: TBA
Course Number
: 30505
Class: TR, 12:30-1:45
Location: Manly 207

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Description

This course is an introduction to African American religions and religions of the African Diaspora. It chronicles the religious traditions of African American people in relation to other religious traditions of the African Diaspora from the period of African-European contact to the present.


Syllabus

Spring 2007 Syllabus (PDF)


Books

Sernett, Milton,
Afro-American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, 2nd ed.,
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2000)
ISBN: 0822324490


Readings

African American Religions Flyer (PDF)

African Churches (PDF)

"A Gender Perspective" (PDF)

Beginnings (PDF)

"Black Faith: Continuity Within Change" (PDF)

"Black Sectarianism" (PDF)

"Daniel Rudd" (PDF)

"Religion and Resistance" (PDF)

"Slave Songs" (PDF)

"Sojourner Truth" (PDF)

"The Black Experience" (PDF)

"The Future Golden Day of the Race" (PDF)

"The Muslim Mission" (PDF)

"Thomas Dorsey" (PDF)

"Harriet Powers" (PDF)