LATS 224
U.S. Latinx Religions Spring 2023
Division II
Cross-listed REL 224 / AMST 224 / LATS 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. Given the plurality of Latinx communities and religious lives in the U.S.A., we can only consider select contexts that help us understand the challenges of studying and defining the “religious” and “hybridity” in Latinx contexts. We will survey 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.