US-WORLD 33 - Religion and Social Change in Black America

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Harvard University

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Religion has inspired new understandings of black social and political engagement. From protest oriented struggles for civil rights and black power to the personal responsibility calls of the Million Man March and the growing influence of Evangelicalism and Pentacostalism in black churches, religion has informed how African Americans engage the challenges of everyday life in America. Through ethnography, auto/biography, and documentary film, this class examines the influence that the social reality of blackness and the religious expression of faith have had on the day to day existence of people of African descent in the US and abroad.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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