REL 3308 - African Christianities

Credits: 4
This course will examine the variety of African Christianities in both their global and local contexts. We will look at how Christianity in Africa has influenced and been influenced by Christianity world-wide, and also ask how indigenous and Muslim traditions – each equally varied - have played a role in its development. Students will learn to problematize, to complicate, and to relentlessly question prevailing religious and cultural ideas about the other, where those ideas originate, how they are constructed and maintained, and who that maintenance and construction serves
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwester, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding