Africana Classics: "Slave Religion" Discussion w/ Vaughn Booker

In a new installment in Africana Classics, Prof. Vaughn Booker will discuss "Slave Religion" by Albert Raboteau.
About this Event

Enjoy an in-depth discussion of Albert Raboteau's “Slave Religion” with Prof. Vaughn Booker. On October 7, 2026, in the Max Kade Room on Penn campus, this new installment in Africana Classics will light up your noonday. Register today!

Vaughn A. Booker is the George E. Doty, Jr. and Lee Spelman Doty Presidential Associate Professor of Africana Studies. He comes to Penn from Dartmouth College, where he was Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and Religion. Booker is a historian of religion in America whose scholarship and teaching center twentieth-century African American religions. His teaching interests include African American religion and culture during Jim Crow, religion and the Civil Rights movement, contemporary religious/spiritual memoirs, religion and mourning/memorialization, and modern religious/spiritual communities.