How does CAATS incorporate the African experience in understanding African American Christianity?
The African American experience is the basis of the entire program. We take the African and African American experiences to be the starting point, not the peripheral or marginal issue that we study once or twice a year in particular classes. Through such focused study, we reveal the roots of some African American religious practices. For example, the Mandinka walking secrets, which turn into the shout service in the African American context. The Mandinka walking secrets, originally practiced by the Mande people of West Africa, were used to squash sound while hunting. However, African Americans incorporated this practice in worship. They used cast iron pots, positioned around their service, to suck up sound so that they could worship as loud as possible without being heard by others. Q. – Do the CAATS courses focus on specific African countries? Our classes embrace a wide breath of knowledge which may relate to a particular area on the continent. There are more regional influences than
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