President Guiyou Huang | https://www.wiu.edu/president/#:~:text=Dr.,Huang%2C%20President%20%2D%20Western%20Illinois%20University
President Guiyou Huang | https://www.wiu.edu/president/#:~:text=Dr.,Huang%2C%20President%20%2D%20Western%20Illinois%20University
Western Illinois University RELICS, a Religious Studies student organization, will host the Woodbine Book Lecture, "Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World," at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 30 on Zoom.
This event is open free to the public.
Participants will have the opportunity to increase understanding and promote DEI from author Onaje Woodbine as he models new possibilities and areas of study for all scholars no matter their race, ethnicity, religious beliefs or identity.
"Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the ‘spirit realm,'" said Woodbine. "Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine's portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the lived religion of the dispossessed. Through the gripping story of one local prophet, this book offers a deeply original account of the religious experiences of Black women in contemporary America: their bodies, their haunted landscapes and their spiritual worlds."
Copies of the book can be checked out in advance in the Religious Studies department office, Morgan Hall, room 232.
Original source can be found here.
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