Ph.D. University of Virginia, Religious Studies
\nM.A. University of Georgia, Religious Studies
\nB.A Young Harris College, Religious Studies & History<\/p>\n
Anderson C. Moss-Weaver is an Assistant Professor of religious studies whose interdisciplinary approach traces alternative religious worldbuilding in 20th-century African American literature. His research highlights how Black authors have used literature to produce symbols, rituals, myths, and new conceptions of the divine. He examines how Black literary artists have used literature to answer questions of ultimate existential meaning, especially as they have sought to formulate sacred aesthetics of freedom that transcend freedom\u2019s normative Western political conception. He also has secondary research interests in the history of Afro-Asian solidarities. In his classes, he regularly incorporates ways that Black and Asian people have worked together to form collective identities and resist racism in America. He teaches courses on theories and methods of interpreting religion, the histories of African American religions, metaphysical religions in America, and the intersections of religion and the arts.<\/p>\n
Professor Moss-Weaver is also an avid lover of TTRPGs and plays several games ranging from Pathfinder<\/em> 2e <\/em>to Vampire: The Masquerade<\/em> to Blades in the Dark<\/em>.<\/p>\n Courses<\/strong>
\nREL 140 Religion, Race, and Colonialism: An Introduction to Religious Studies
\nREL\/AFR 155 African American Religious Traditions
\nREL\/AMST 256 Spiritual But Not Religious: A History of Spirituality in America
\nREL\/AMST 379 Evangelicalism & Christian Nationalism: From Spiritual Freedom to Political Crisis
\nREL\/AFR\/MUS 279 Saints & Gangsters: Hip-Hop, Black Religion, and Realness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1890,"featured_media":8209,"template":"","class_list":["post-7314","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-specific-20th-century-american-cultural-history","expertise-specific-africana-religions","expertise-specific-american-religious-history","expertise-specific-literary-studies","expertise-specific-metaphysical-religions","expertise-specific-philosophy-of-religion","expertise-specific-religion-and-the-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8212,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7314\/revisions\/8212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}