RELG 003B. Varieties of Religious Experience in African Diaspora

This course explores varieties of Black Diaspora religion through the lens of religious experience -- or all those ways that Black ritual foregrounds sensible encounters with Spirit as an aim of worship.  Through reading discussions, lectures, multimedia sources, and social media platform assignments, students will discover aspects of Black Spirit ritual through the domains of the five physical senses: touch, taste, sight, smell, sound; choreography, kinaesthetics and embodied movement; and the Diasporic "sixth senses" of dreams, visions, divination, revelation, spirit possession, trance, and ecstasy.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for BLST, LALS
Catalog chapter: Religion  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/religion


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