The Sam Hill Lecture 2012 The Sam Hill Lecture 2012

The 2012 Sam Hill Lecture in Southern Religious History and

The Mills Distinguished Lecturer Fund in the Humanities present

Double Consciousness and Double Identity: Being a Baptist-Buddhist in the South

by
Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine

March 29 at 7p.m.
Mountain View Room, 417 Wilma M. Sherrill Center on the campus of UNC Asheville
Free and open to the public

Sponsored by the Departments of Religious Studies and History with assistance from the Mills Distinguished Lecturer Fund at UNC Asheville

Hybrid identities in African diaspora religions are a result of cultural contact, slavery, and exile. Jan Willis’ Dreaming Me is a memoir by a Southern black woman who calls herself a “Baptist-Buddhist.” This double identity is one reflection of double-consciousness, an embracing and healing of it. In her lecture, Dr. Medine will explore African Americans’ engagement with Buddhism in its various forms, the embrace of Buddhism as an extension of the Civil Rights Movement, and double identity as a mode of dealing with double consciousness.
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