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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2014 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Andreas Heuser (andreas.heuser@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The seminar deals with religious traditions that emerged in the aftermath of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Usually the discourse on the "Black Atlatntic", a term recently coined by Paul Gilroy, reflects experiences of dislocation and alienation on economic and political grounds. However, this course sets a focus on the religious worldviews and trajectories of enslaved people of African origin in the trans-Atlantic world. The "Black Atlantic" is an exceptional rich area of religious creativity and imagination that has menawhile infused European religious landscapes as well. Blak Atlantic religion is manifest in diverse new religious movements or in specific African-American and hybrid forms of Christianity, partly with distant memories on early Congolese Christianity (from 16th century). Some Afro-Brazilian or Caribbean religious movements (such as Vodoo, Umbanda, Candomblé, Orisha or Cuban Palo) relate to West and Central African ritual heritage and cosmologies, and fuse it with popular Catholic repertoires; others (like Rastafarianism and African-American Christianity) revive biblical narratives of exile, diaspora and the imaginative exodus into the Promised Land. In this line, the "Black Joseph" evolved as messianic figure and "Ethiopia" as an eminent Black Atlantic code of religio-political liberation. |
| Lernziele | history of Black Atlantic religions and its Christian variants; comparative approach to Black Atlantic theologies; transcultural adaptations and transformations of Black Atlantic religions; terms of intercultural theology: new religious movements - syncretism - hybridity, Black Atlantic religious networks in the West. |
| Literatur | P. Gilroy, Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture, 2011 L. Heywood, Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora, 2002 J. Lorand Matory, Black Atlantic Reiligion, 2005 M.A. Mooney, Faith Makes us Live, 2009 T.R. Ochoa, Society of the Dead, 2010 R. Gray, Black Christians and White Missionaries, 1990 |
| Bemerkungen | Depending on participation of English speaking students, the seminar will be conducted in English (otherwise, in German). |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | proficiency in English; motivation in working with English texts |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | online |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| HörerInnen willkommen |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Basics: Religion (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Culture and Society (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Reflexion interkultureller Gegenwartsfragen in der Theologie (ÖM 2) (Master Studienfach: Theologie) Modul Reflexion interkultureller Gegenwartsfragen in der Theologie (ÖM 2) (Master Theologie) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Leistungsnachweis |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | active participation; intense preparation of seminar texts; presentation of seminar paper; preparation of written paper. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: Dozierende |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | eine Wiederholung, bester Versuch zählt |
| Skala | 1-6 0,5 |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Theologische Fakultät, studiendekanat-theol@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Departement Theologie |