
<h2>AFAM 33302</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
Write a 1,000-word article for The
Observer (the Notre Dame student newspaper) describing the field
of Africana
<p> Studies and the
place that the critical examination of the African American religious
experience occupies therein. Your article should:</p>
<ol>
<li>Describe the discipline’s primary aims;<br />
</li>
<li>Offer a rationale for treating religious faith as a topic of
central importance within it;&nbsp;</li>
<li>Detail some of the sources and methods used in the study of
Africana spiritualities in the United States and elsewhere;</li>
<li>Profile one event in African American religious history that you
consider central to an understanding of its overall nature and scope;
and<br />
</li>
<li>Provide an apologia for the inclusion of Africana spirituality among those
subjects included in an undergraduate Catholic liberal arts
curriculum.</li></ol>
