1. Several authors have challenged a popular belief about or academic understanding of African Religions. Choose two of the following, or some other reading of your choosing from the course, and summarize what belief or understanding of African Religions the author is challenging, summarize the author’s corrective or alternative argument, and whether you find the authors’ corrective or alternative argument convincing or not:
A. Cox’s “Towards a Socio-cultural, Non-essentialist Interpretation of Religion”
B. Ray’s “African Shrines as Channels of Communication”
C. McGee’s “Haitian Vodou and Voodoo: Imagined Religion and Popular Culture”
D. Mangu’s “Law, Religion and Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo”
E. Clark’s “¡No Hay Ningún Santo Aqui!” (There Are No Saints Here!): Symbolic Language within Santería,”
