Welcome to the Fall 2020 seminar “Latinas and Religion. Purity, Strength, and the Body.” We begin with this image of a Cuban devotee of the Virgen de Regla, which in the Lucumí tradition is also Yemayá, the goddess of water. We shall return to them and other women of latinidad and religion throughout the semester.
This is the space where we are going to post weekly reflections on our readings and class discussions.
Every week I’ll send a prompter on Wednesday afternoon to ask you to think about our week’s think and dialogue work.
We all can read everyone else’s post, and we can comment on each one’s reflections. This is not required, but in reading the comments and commenting on each other’s writings, we can create a tighter thinking community.
I very much look forward to our doing so in the next three months. Welcome.