August 29: Introductions, Expectations
READ: Syllabus, Reading
“FOUNDATIONS”?
September 3: Presentations of African American Religious Experiences
VIEW: The Green Pastures (in class)
September 5: Film Discussion
READ: HARVEY, “Introduction”
The “INVISIBLE” INSTITUTION
September 10: The Middle Passage
READ: HARVEY, chapter 1
READ: Prothero, “Yoruba Religion”
READ: GOMEZ (pages 3-128)
September 12: The Invisible Institution, I
READ: HARVEY, chapter 2-3
September 17-19: The Invisible Institution, II
READ: RABOTEAU (entire, by 9/19)
The BLACK CHURCH
September 24: The Black Church, I
READ: HARVEY, chapter 4
DUE: Response #1 (on RABOTEAU)
September 26: The Black Church, II
October 1: NO CLASS (Rosh HaShanah)
October 3: The Black Church, III
READ: FRAZIER (entire)
VARIATIONS on a THEME
October 8: Marcus Garvey & Rastafarianism
READ: TBA
DUE: Response #2 (on FRAZIER)
October 10: The Father Divine Peace Mission Movement
READ: Erickson, “Black Messiah” (.pdf)
October 15: NO CLASS (Fall Break)
October 17: The Rise of “Black Ethnics”
READ: GOMEZ (pages 129-203)
October 22-24: Hebrew Israelites, I
READ: DORMAN (entire, by 10/24)
October 29: Moorish Science Temple
READ: The Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America
DUE: Response #3 (on DORMAN)
October 31 – November 7: African American Islam
READ: GOMEZ (pages 203-375, by 11/07)
The BLACK CHURCH, REVISITED
November 12-19: The Black Church, Revisited
READ: LINCOLN, The Black Church Since Frazier (entire, by 11/19)
READ: HARVEY, chapter 5
DUE (11/12): Response #4 (on GOMEZ)
November 21-26: Black Theology
READ: CONE (entire, by 11/26)
November 28: NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)
December 3: NO CLASS (PORT Day)
December 5: MOVE
READ: HARVEY, chapter 6 & “Epilogue”
DUE: Response #5 (on CONE)
December 10: Conclusions (In class: Pew Report)
DISTRIBUTED: Final Exam – Option #1 or Option #2
FINAL EXAM
DUE: December 12 (Thursday), 1:30 p.m.
