Seminars/Lectures
Contentious Religious Encounters in Colonial Mali
Tue
Oct
26
Benjamin Soares
Director, Center for Global Islamic Studies
Professor, Department of Religion & Center for African Studies
University of Florida
This talk will consider the complex history of Muslim-Christian encounters in colonial Mali. The case of the contentious encounters between African colonial subjects and the White Fathers, the Roman Catholic missionary order, helps to illustrate how different religions and Muslims and Christians have been mutually imbricated over time.
