The 'African' in African American Religion

On March 6, 2008, Eddie Glaude, Jr., the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Princeton University and a core faculty member in the Center for African American Studies, delivered this lecture in the Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Religion Speaker Series lecture. The event, held in Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, was sponsored by the Religion and Society Colloquium, in conjunction with the Dean's Office, Harvard Divinity School, and the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, Harvard University.

[@cgrock]

Brilliant discussion -- loved the Q & A portion --

[@DaughterOfChrist1997]

3:47 start :)

[@gyenyame6]

That was very enlightening. Thank you!

[@lorettahines7936]

I was called to the ministry sometimes in feb 1997. After going through the Bible I see that God have gave everybody spiritual gifts to use to lift up the church or the body of Christ. People don’t know that they have spiritual gifts. The church is dysfunctional is the reason a person can’t find spiritual guidance or counsel which is a shame!

[@sirajahmed4903]

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[@johnnymuhammad6953]

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[@bs4830]

dude got that David Robinson hair cut

[@lasha4585]

African American Religion historically consisted of Aboriginal American spirituality and practices before the Colonizers came.

[@misriabhaya]

Prabhupada
Bhaktisiddhanta saraswati
Bhaktivinoda thakura
Rupa Gosvami
Nitai Gaura

[@shaypink40]

Huh! What?

[@3864267]

ShayPink 40 to what part?

[@lasha4585]

When will Black professors focus on the fact that Blacks were in America before Columbus???!!! Read the book “They Came Before Columbus”.

[@fabbeyonddadancer]

Unfortunately that book has a lot of errors and sadly people still use that book not updating their information (populations genetics & archeogenetics which ivan van sertima didn’t have like we have now)

[@hombrepobre9646]

lol, unless if native americans take black as slave before european, we all know that african made it to the west because of slave trade.

[@fathermugler]

What do Christians teach immorlaity is? Proverbs Chapter 5 speaks about adultery and adulteressness and this appears to be what immorality is. How can immorality mean shameful? We need to leave religion follow Jesus and Obey God. Exodus 20:1-17 Matthew 22:36-40

[@thepioneer8985]

Following Jesus IS a religion. It's called Christianity.

[@hannahvizena8823]

Shes so Gorgeous!!! I would try this later.....😆

[@lasha4585]

Evelyn, All blacks didn’t come straight from Africa. New research proves that humans indigenous/blacks were in America thousands of years ago, not just in the last 400 years.

[@jean-pierremuchuba6509]

Unless U are of o dark skinned Asian from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh or Southern India etc. dont feel concerned by this narrative. If U classify yourself as Jew ( Non Ethiopian) or Native American look away. People of African descent know who they are. Why are you interested in this if you are not African and African American? You cant get it if you are not one of them.

[@jean-pierremuchuba6509]

There was Africa before America. There were African in America before Colon. If you think it is Colon who define where Africa begins you are wrong. With a bit of luck you might reach your goal one day, become ' non African ' or Native American and eventually European...

[@nmagain24]

Do you have any sources to cite please??

[@robinhoodstfrancis]

@@nmagain24 A good point, and a fundamental one that separates the responsible from the irresponsible wishful thinking, after which the philosophical truth can be evaluated empirically. Until then, there is plenty of irresponsible wishful thinking projecting all kinds of psychological needs and issues.

[@robinhoodstfrancis]

@@jean-pierremuchuba6509 Yeah, that exceptionalism stuff is why University-based culture is key to identify in the globalization of western culture. The power of philosophical scholarship with empiricism interrelates all the modern tools that even you here are trying to emulate in form. All of that University-based culture itself reflects the key empowering features of Jesus´ life, mission, and message, and Africa needs to learn to love itself authentically, to allow its appropriate strengths to be expressed.
If you think there are things that any of us humans can feel and experience that others can´t, you are projecting alienation. Uniqueness may define many features of many different cultures, but University-based society allows us to use concepts to use empathy and compare and contrast for our universal humanity. That´s a key part of why it is Jesus´ legacy of loving integrity for Moses et al and God that has led to University-based, UN human rights-sustainability-social movement society with structured pluralism.
That´s why any of us who are not African or African-American could be interested. I suggest you learn the meaning of love that Jesus taught. All the tribes of the world have shamans who are among the most visible of those who can have understood that term to one degree or another. Jesus has put it on display sanctified as the Son of God and Man, and his legacy has at least delivered it for a modern world community.