Petition for Naturalization

Judith Weisenfeld

Princeton University

Judith Weisenfeld is the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University and Associated Faculty in African American Studies, American Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on early twentieth-century African American religious history; religion, race, and gender; and religion in American film and popular culture. She is the author of Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 (California, 2007) and African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945 (Harvard, 1997). Her most recent book, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration, is forthcoming from NYU Press in February. She is currently working on projects dealing with the intersection of African American religion and psychiatry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on U.S. religion and the documentary film tradition.

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With the support of the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, Dr. Pamela Klassen of the University of Toronto and Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer, Director of the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, are directing a research project on Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies. The project runs from 2015 to […]

How Should We Understand Indigenous Spirituality (in English)? A reflection on the philosophy of listening Indigenous spirituality matters to Indigenous peoples. In this discussion, I am broadly interested in how Indigenous spirituality is used in contemporary Indigenous politics. More specifically, I ask the question: How should we understand Indigenous spirituality in English? My discussion involves […]