He would go on to play a major role in both the Black Studies and Black Catholic Movements, with his focus on Black religion naturally leading to the topic of his own childhood faith of Catholicism.Ī documentary released during the latter movement, and not long after the revival of the National Black Catholic Congress in 1987, features Raboteau speaking on Black Catholic history alongside the late Fr Cyprian Davis, OSB. Raboteau is also an important figure within the Black Catholic community specifically, having gotten his professional start at Xavier University of Louisiana in 1968, before his transition to the Ivy Leagues. I have to start with my advisor Albert Raboteau's *Slave Religion: The 'Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South* because it was such a groundbreaking book and got me interested in the field.

John Schmalzbauer September 18, 2021Ī13. Excerpts from his pathbreaking Slave Religion will remain on the syllabus of my sections of Religion in America at MSU, where they have been since 2005. Zaheer Ali September 19, 2021įor my Ozarks friends who do not know the work of Professor Raboteau, here is his website. When I read his book SLAVE RELIGION in college, it sent me looking for African Muslim survivals among the enslaved, the beginning of a scholarly trajectory that continues to this day. Travel in peace as you journey to meet the ancestors, Albert Raboteau. His landmark text “ Slave Religion” has become a point of reference for many of the remembrances, from both his former students and colleagues, well as from many who never knew him but were impacted by the text during their own academic studies. There, she pledged to post pictorial tributes of her own for the duration of his remaining days. Raboteau had received a flurry of tributes on social media in recent months, largely in response to a Twitter thread from his daughter Emily, begun upon his entrance into hospice care in January. We'll be posting information on the department website tomorrow and more information soon about ways to pay tribute and honor his legacy.- Judith Weisenfeld September 19, 2021

Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline September 19, 2021Īl Raboteau's wife Joanne let those of us in the Religion Department know the sad news that he died last night. Albert Raboteau, Henry Putnam Professor of Religion, Emeritus, giant in the African American Religious History. No cause of death has been released and funeral arrangements appear to be forthcoming. The news came Saturday night via social media. Albert Jordy “Al” Raboteau II, the eminent scholar of African-American religion and longtime professor at Princeton University, has died in New Jersey.

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