Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN AFRICA

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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, clash of cultures, modernity, cosmology, community, and socio-religious conflicts in a postcolonial world. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 538. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 426 if student has credit for RELI 538.