Enslaved Religions Syllabus

Slavery has played a defining role in the definition of religion in the Americas. This course will consider the afterlives of slavery in religious experience and the religion of the enslaved. It will also ask what role religion played in acts of resistance (for example the Haitian Revolution). We will look at how enslaved people remade Christianity and how many enslaved people rejected Christianity and practiced Afro-Atlantic traditions and Islam. This course will also consider the larger theoretical questions of what “power,” both materially and spiritually, means in the experience of religion.

 

This syllabus was created for the Young Scholars in American Religion program.

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