| Course Title: The Aquatic Life of Black Devotion |
| Start Date: 09/04/2019 End Date: 12/17/2019 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2019 |
| Description: Water informs religious and spiritual worldviews the world over; commonplace rituals from baptism to libation underwrite its prescience. The religious cultures of West and Central Africa, along with its multiple diasporas, theorize, encounter, and engage water centrally. Seminar participants will dive deeply into the water-based epistemologies of African and African diaspora religions, probing liturgical language, ritual performance and spiritual entities for aquatic common threads. Seminar participants will analyze the historical realities that have made water such a contested yet indispensable feature of black religious life. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Meredith Coleman-Tobias | mfcoleman@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/04/2019 - 12/17/2019 | Seminar | Wednesday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | SHTK - Shattuck Hall | 318 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| CST0001 | CSTH: Critical Social Thought major | This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor. |
| CST0001 | CSTH: Critical Social Thought minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| RELIG-361-01 Aquatic Life of Black Devotion |
| AFCNA-361-01 Aquatic Life of Black Devotion |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 12 | Available: 6 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Claire of the Sea Light Author: Danticat, Edwidge Copyright: 2014 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780307472274 Publisher: Vintage |
Required | 16.00 |
| Title: African Religions: A Very Short Introduction Author: Olupona, Jacob K. Copyright: 2014 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0199790582 Publisher: Oxford University Press |
Required | 11.95 |
| Title: Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Author: Otero, Solimar Copyright: 2014 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 1438448007 Publisher: State University of New York Press |
Required | 31.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |