# Judith Weisenfeld
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judith weisenfeld is a scholar of African-American religion. She is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion at Princeton University, where she is also the Chair of the Department of Religion.
== Education and research ==
Weisenfeld attended Barnard College, where she graduated cum laude in 1986 with an A. B. degree in Religion.
Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025)
In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists listed “religious excitement” among the most frequent causes of insanity for Black patients. At the same time, American popular culture and political d…
Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025)
In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists listed “religious excitement” among the most frequent causes of insanity for Black patients. At the same time, American popular culture and political d…
Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025)
In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists listed “religious excitement” among the most frequent causes of insanity for Black patients. At the same time, American popular culture and political d…
Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025)
In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists listed “religious excitement” among the most frequent causes of insanity for Black patients. At the same time, American popular culture and political d…
Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025)
In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists listed “religious excitement” among the most frequent causes of insanity for Black patients. At the same time, American popular culture and political d…
Afro-Eccentric Forms of Spirituality – with William D. Hart
In this thought-provoking episode, our guest, William D. Hart, shares how his penchant for religious autobiographies led him to critique what he coins as “the standard narrative of Black religion” and how Afro-ecentric forms of spirituality develop strong communities and fight for freedom.
High…
American Religion: The Nation of Islam
Today we are going to pull on this thread of the American religious tapestry: The Nation of Islam, a 20th century American religious movement brought to national consciousness by 1960s Black Power, Muhammad Ali and Malcom X, and which also has a deep and significant history with implications for 21…
Black Religion Deemed Mental Illness by White Supremacist Doctors - Interview with Dr. Judith Weisenfeld!
Brittany Page is joined by Dr. Judith Weisenfeld to discuss her important book, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery's Wake." Together, they discuss Dr. Weisenfeld's years-long research into the history of black religions being pathologized by white doctors in the decades…
Episode 6 - The Black Social Gospel
This week we narrow in on the early 20th century, what’s called the Progressive Era in the U.S., to the thinking of Black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and white pastor and activist Walter Rauschenbusch. For this episode, Dr. Sawyer shares an interview with her colleague Rev. Dr. Julian Cook whose doctora…
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