Featured quote: “...enslaved people "were conjuring out of nothing that manhood that has been stripped away from them for four hundred years, they used the spirituals as a catalyst.”― Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

Who is Dr. Sheila A. Otieno?

Sheila Otieno is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Distinguished Emerging Scholar in Religious Studies at Elon University. She teaches religion and religious ethics, with a focus on African and African American religions. A comparative ethicist, her research and teaching areas center on alternative belongings and indigenous epistemologies, particularly those that generate social change and transform moral behavior.

Discussion points

• The connection between the African and African American religions
• Historical evolutions of Christianity in general
• The impact and influence of the Black church past and present

Books to read

• The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• The Black History of the White House, Clarence Lusane
• Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah

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