RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN AFRICA

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

Analysis of the religious imagination and gender issues in postcolonial literature in Africa focusing on Islam, Christianity, indigenous religions and African Initiated Churches. Religious and gender issues addressed include identity crises, power, clash of cultures, modernity, cosmology, community, and socio-religious conflicts in a postcolonial world. Cross-list: AAAS 426 . Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 426 if student has credit for RELI 538 .