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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251029T183000
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URL:https://sites.udmercy.edu/campusconnection/events/lecture-entitles-bla
 ck-freedom-religious-excitement-and-the-invention-of-a-public-health-crisi
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SUMMARY:Lecture entitled "Black Freedom\, Religious Excitement\, and the In
 vention of a Public Health Crisis"
DESCRIPTION:The 2025 Bruttell Endowment for Social Ethics presents "Black F
 reedom\, Religious Excitement\, and the Invention of a Public Health Crisi
 s\," a lecture by Judith Weisenfeld\, Ph.D.\, the Agate Brown and George L
 . Collard Professor of Religion at Princeton University.\n\nThis event wil
 l take place on Wednesday\, Oct. 29\, at 6:30 p.m.\, in the Architecture E
 xhibition Space\, inside the Loranger Architecture Building. The talk is f
 ree and open to the public. Refreshments will be available.\n\nWeisenfeld 
 will examine the rise of mental institutions as public institutions in the
  late 19th Century and the increasing prominence of a racialized understan
 ding of “religious excitement” as a public health crisis that served a
 s justification for the institutionalization of the formerly enslaved and 
 their descendants.\n\nWeisenfeld's research and teaching focus on African 
 American religious history\, religion and race\, and religion in modern Am
 erican culture. She is the author most recently of Black Religion in the M
 adhouse: Race and American Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake and New World A-C
 oming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration\, whi
 ch was awarded the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Afri
 cana Religions. She is also the director of The Crossroads Project: Black 
 Religious Histories\, Cultures\, and Communities\, which is funded by the 
 Henry Luce Foundation and supported by Princeton’s Center for Culture\, 
 Society and Religion.\n\nFor any questions\, please contact Chair of the D
 epartment of Religious Studies Todd Hibbard at hibbarja@udmercy.edu.\n\nTh
 e event is co-sponsored by University of Detroit Mercy College of Humaniti
 es\, Arts &amp\; Social Sciences\, the African American Studies Program an
 d the Department of Religious Studies.\nRegister here.
LOCATION:Loranger Architecture Exhibition Space\, 4001 W. McNichols Road\, 
 Detroit\, Michigan\, 48221\, United States
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