Introduction to Black Religions: The North American Experience

1 Unit · Undergraduate

Introduces students to the variety of Black religions that developed during and after the Atlantic slave trade up to the present. Explores these traditions as continuities/changes of West African religious cosmologies. Examines the interplay between religion, politics, and the constructions of racial identities within various forms of Christianity, Islam, and other expressive cultures. RELIGION 262-0 and BLK_ST 262-0 are taught together; may not receive credit for both.