LATS 224
U.S. Latinx Religions Spring 2018
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed REL 224 / AMST 224
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In this course, we will engage aspects of Latinx religious experiences, practices, and expressions in the United States of America. We examine moments where religious expressions intersect with politics, popular culture, and daily life in the U.S.A. Given the plurality of Latinx communities and religious lives in the U.S.A., we will engage certain selected religious traditions and practices –such as popular Catholic devotions to Guadalupe, crypto-Judaism, curanderismo, Latinx Muslims, and Santería–by focusing on particular moments of religious expression as elucidated in specific historiographies, ethnographies, art, literature, and film. We will also consider, though more briefly, questions of how one studies Latinx religions. Rooting ourselves in the social, political, cultural, and historical contexts in which particular Latinx religious formations developed, this EDI course examines issues of social and institutional power relations that influence particular religious formations.