What is the Race and Religion: Thought, Practice and Meaning Workshop?
This workshop seeks to address the ideas, meanings, and practices of the sacred within racially marginalized communities. Additionally, this workshop seeks to examine the way the social construction of race impacts how we think about religion. Moreover, this workshop acknowledges both an intellectual conviction to the exploration of religion among racialized peoples and a commitment to engaging with and clarifying the impact of religion in racialized communities. We convene this workshop to provide a forum for graduate students and faculty at the University of Chicago and area institutions to explore the problematics of race and religion. The 2009-2010 faculty directors of the workshop are Dwight Hopkins, Professor of Theology in the Divinity School, and Omar McRoberts, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and The College. The graduate student coordinator is Julius Crump of the Divinity School. This workshop will meet on a bi-weekly basis, starting on the second week of e
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