AFRICANA STUDIES 360c - d.Religion and Popular Politics in African History

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Bowdoin College

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Spring 2007. DAVID GORDON. Religion in African history since the colonial period, with a focus on Islam in Saharan Africa and Christian movements in south and central Africa. Examines popular anti-colonial religious movements and the relationship between religious movements and post-colonial political parties and states. Includes missionary influences and independent African Christianity in south and central Africa; Sufi Brotherhoods in Senegal; and Islamic rebellion and fundamentalism in Nigeria, Algeria, and Sudan. (Same as History 360 and Religion 360.)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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