Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN AFRICA

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Discusses new religious movements and the religious, sociological, and political factors leading to their rise, also missionary and colonial reactions to them. Examines their relationship to indigenous religions, political praxis, their focus on this-worldly salvation in the wake of political and economic marginality. Cross-list: ANTH 343.