This one day symposium will focus on Black women's spiritual narratives in Africa and the Diaspora and will take place in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall on Princeton University's campus from 3:30-6:00.

The symposium will feature:

Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Trinity Theological College, Ghana. She is Professor of Theology and the author of books that include "Daughters of Anowa: African Women and Patriarchy" (Orbis Books). Other books include "Hearing and Knowing" and "The Will to Arise". She has served as deputy general secretary of the World Council of Churches, Geneva Switzerland.

Joycelyn Moody, Department of English, University of Washington. She is an Assistant Professor of English and the author of "Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women" (University of Georgia Press).

Carolyn Rouse, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies and the author of the forthcoming "Engaged Surrender: Consciousness and Empowerment in the Conversion Experience of African-American Muslim Women" (University of California Press.)