Prof. Deborah Levenson

This upper level course looks at the various ways in which religious thought and practice have been inseperable from the course of Latin American and Caribbean history from the Pre-Conquest period to the present era. Emphasis is placed on the spiritual praxis of the pre-Conquest Andes, and the subsequent consequences of the Christian conquest, debates about Christianity and Conquest on Hispaniola in the 1500s, Islam and slave rebellion, Vodun in the Haitian history, the Church and the Mexican Revolution, and Theology of Liberation. The requirements of this course are active participation, weekly summation essays, a paper, and a group presentation.

Prerequisite: Any two semesters of HS 001 through HS 094
Offered Periodically
Fulfils Non-Western requirement for History majors