2025 Bruttell Series in Religion and Social Ethics
September 02, 2025
Bruttell Endowment for Social Ethics presents
Black Freedom, Religious Excitement,
and the Invention of a Public Health Crisis
Wednesday, Oct. 29
6:30 p.m.
Architecture Exhibition Space
Loranger Architecture Building
McNichols Campus
Featuring
Judith Weisenfeld, Ph.D., Agate Brown and
George L. Collord, Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Princeton University
Refreshments will be available.
Judith Weisenfeld’s research and teaching focus on African American religious history, religion and race, and religion in modern American culture. She is the author most recently of Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and American Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake (NYU 2025) and New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration (NYU, 2016), which was awarded the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions. She is also the Director of The Crossroads Project: Black Religious Histories, Cultures, and Communities, which is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and supported by Princeton’s Center for Culture, Society and Religion.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, the African American Studies Program
and the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences