Course Catalog - 2004-2005

     

RELI 426 - REL & LITERATURE AFRICA

Long Title:
Department: Religion
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN AFRICA ***** Analysis of the religious imagination and gender issues in postcolonial literature in Africa focusing on Islam, Christianity, indigenous religions and African Initiated Churches. Religious and gender issues addressed include identity crises, power, class of cultures, modernity, cosmology, community, and socio-religious conflicts in a postcolonial world. ***** Offered with additional work as RELI 538. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba.