“Balm in Gilead: Memory, Mourning, and Healing in African American Autobiography”

Editor's note: This event has been postponed to a later date. Albert J. Raboteau, the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion Emeritus at Princeton University, will deliver the Ratner Family Lecture in Religion Wednesday, March 21, at 4:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, ballroom C. Raboteau will present “Balm in Gilead: Memory, Mourning, and Healing in African American Autobiography.” After the lecture and Q&A session, a reception will be held. Learn more about the event.

About the speaker

Raboteau is a specialist in American religious history. His publications are considered critical to the study of American religions for students and professional academics in religion and religious studies. His works include Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South, A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History, Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives (co-edited with Richard Alba and Josh DeWind), and most recently American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals & Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice (2016, Princeton University Press).