Introduction to Black Religions in the Americas
RELI 177
Fall 2025
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AFAM 177 |
This course will both introduce students to the themes of Black religions formed in and through the Americas, and specific traditions, for example Santería, Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism. The Americas are formed in and through Black Atlantic. The phrase the Black Atlantic centers the forced movement of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas and Europe as the center of a set of complex forces: European global expansion, land expropriation, indigenous extermination and, of course African enslavement. The term aptly captures the shifting geographies we call the Americas. Africans were not solely objects of dehumanizing subjugation and property. Africans co-created the new world of the Americas through material practices, traditions of knowledge, and meaning making summed up in religion. Students will read scholarly articles and engage multi-sensory sources and first-person accounts of both themes and traditions. All resources will be provided in class or via Moodle. Books for purchase are not required. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS RELI |
| Course Format: Lecture | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Excerpts from the following books: African American Religion, Interpretive Essays in History and Culture; African American Religious History, A Documentary Witness; and Fragments of Bone, Neo-African Religions in a New World
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Examinations and Assignments:
Examinations and assignments
Quizzes, short mid-term paper, periodic discussion posts, final group presentation
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course satisfied the "Historical Traditions" or "additional course" requirement for the Religion major. |
| Instructor(s): Millner,Marlon Times: ..T.R.. 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 10 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 5 | FR: 5 |
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