Albert Raboteau

Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion at Princeton University and one of the nation’s foremost authorities on African-American religious history. Raboteau is the author of the books Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution’ in the Antebellum South (1978 also updated 25^th anniversary edition), and A Fire in the Bones: Reflections of African-American Religious History (1995). He has taught at University of California - Berkley, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale University. With David Wills, he is co-editing “A Documentary History of African-American Religion.” Raboteau’s research and teaching have focused on American Catholic history and African-American religious movements.

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