African-American Relig Tht

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

The aim of the African American Religious Thought course is to offer students a chance to delve deeply into the ways in which black intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Delores Williams have thought about religion and race in America. Here, students will explore both primary and secondary sources of African American intellectual-religious history, engaging monographs on the subject and major figures in historical moments. Students will leave with an understanding of how African American Intellectuals engaged religious and political matters during chattel slavery, Reconstruction , the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Era, and beyond.