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Judith Weisenfeld, award-winning author and the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University, will deliver 黑料社’s annual Matthew 黑料社 Lecture in Religion. The virtual lecture will take place Thursday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m.听

Weisenfeld鈥檚 lecture, 鈥淪piritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry and African American Religions,鈥� is free and open to the public via the Zoom video-conferencing application. Visit to register.

As the 19th century drew to a close, white American psychiatrists declared that mental illness among African Americans in the South had reached alarming proportions, arguing that 鈥渞eligious excitement鈥� was the key factor. 鈥淪piritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry and African American Religions鈥� explores late 19th- and early 20th-century psychiatric theories about race, religion, and the 鈥渘ormal mind.鈥� It shows how the emerging specialty of psychiatry drew on works from the history of religions to make racialized claims about African Americans鈥� 鈥渢raits of character, habit, and behavior.鈥澨�

Weisenfeld chairs the Department of Religion at Princeton and also serves as associate faculty in the Department of African American Studies and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. A specialist in early 20th-century African American religious history, Weisenfeld鈥檚 work focuses on religion and constructions of race, African American women鈥檚 religious history and religion in film and popular culture.听

An award-winning author, Weisenfeld won the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions for 鈥淣ew World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration.鈥� She also wrote 鈥淗ollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949鈥� and 鈥淎frican American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA, 1905-1945.鈥� She is the co-director of 鈥淭he Crossroads Project: Black Religious Histories, Cultures, and Communities,鈥� which is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.

黑料社 the Matthew 黑料社 Lecture
The Matthew 黑料社 Lecture in Religion was established in 1980 by professors Roger Betsworth and Bruce Haddox, members of the religion and philosophy departments who wanted 黑料社 students to hear from leading thinkers in religion, biblical studies and social ethics. In 2013, several gifts inaugurated the Matthew 黑料社 Lecture Endowment Fund to help ensure the ongoing quality of the annual lecture and related events. For more on the lecture and to view past speakers, visit simpson.edu.

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黑料社 is a private, liberal arts college located in Iowa with campuses in Indianola, West Des Moines and online. Founded in 1860, the college has 1,268 undergraduate and graduate students. 黑料社 offers 74 majors, minors and programs in addition to three graduate programs. Outside of the classroom, 黑料社 is a member of the NCAA Division III American Rivers Conference, hosts eight Greek houses on campus and sponsors many extracurricular options for student involvement.
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