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African American Religious History
HDS 3087

Jointly Offered with: Faculty of Arts & Sciences as RELIGION 1089

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Description

This graduate seminar course provides a critical survey of and introduction to major themes, debates, and trajectories in the field of African American Religious History. We will examine the multiple and manifold meanings of "African American religions" with attention to Christian denominational histories and extra-church, non-Christian, and quasi-Christian religious formations and interventions among people of African descent in the United States. To do so, students will be introduced to key historical events, prominent and unsung religious actors and institutions, and a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches to investigating, analyzing, and narrating the archives of African American religious life and culture. Jointly offered as Religion xxxx.

School Harvard Divinity School
Credits 4
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Course Component Seminar
Instruction Mode In Person
Grading Basis HDS Letter Graded
MTS/ThM Area of Focus African and African American Studies
Religions of the Americas
Arts of Ministry N/A
MDiv Histories, Theologies, and Practices African American Religions
Language Course Type N/A
Language Taught N/A
MDiv Scriptural Interpretation African American Religions
Course Level N/A