New Courses
SPRING 2008
RLST 140/AIS 140 - Native Religious Traditions
Professor James Treat
Information about the Fall 2007 version of the course can be found here.
Islam in East Africa
Professor Valerie Hoffman
A survey of the history of Islam in East Africa, from the Horn of Africa through the Swahili coast, including the process of Islamization, the forms of popular Islam and Islamic education, the relationship of Islam to politics, the coexistence of different sects and ethnicities, the emergence of Zanzibar as a center for Islamic scholarship in the nineteenth century, and the impacts of European colonialism, the rise of African nationalism, and contemporary global Islamic trends on local religious practices. Prerequisite: junior standing or previous coursework on Islam.