Workshop Description 

This workshop seeks to address the ideas, meanings, and practices of the sacred within racially marginalized communities.  In addition, this workshop also 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 dynamics and problems of race and religion.  The workshop is cosponsored by Professors Dwight Hopkins and Omar McRoberts and coordinated by Julius Crump of the Divinity School.

This workshop will meet on a bi-weekly basis, starting on the second week of every quarter, on Tuesdays at 4:15pm in Room 106 in Swift Hall of the University of Chicago Divinity School. 

Here is a map to Swift Hall.

2009 Autumn Schedule

October 13 – Introduction: Workshop Aims and Relevance

October 27  
“Contending for the Cross: Black Theology and the Ghosts of Modernity”
Stephen Ray, PhD.
Neal F. and Ila A. Fisher Professor of Systematic Theology
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Download a copy of the paper.

November 12 (Thursday)
“Critical Theory and the Struggle for Recognition: Habermas on Group Rights”
David Ingram, PhD. – Presenting
Professor of Philosophy
Loyola University, Chicago

J. J. McFadden, PhD. Candidate - Responding
Lecturer – Collegiate Division of Political Science
University of Chicago

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November 24
“Prophetic Rage: Black Relgious Response to Postmodernity”
Johnny Hill, PhD. – Presenting
Assistant Professor of Theology
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Curtis Evans, PhD. – Responding
Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity
University of Chicago Divinity School

December 8
“Playing Church: Questioning Authenticity in Black Gospel Performance”
Alisha Jones, PhD. Student in Ethnomusicology
University of Chicago

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