THEMES |
SESSIONS |
TOPICS |
MATERIALS |
Introduction
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Aug. 31 |
The Peculiarities of American Religion:History,
Religion, and American Life
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Marty [M], Preface, chap. 1
Porterfield [P], Intro, 1-23,
Web [W]
Civil Religion
Video:
Sacred Land |
PART I:
Colonial Foundations
Check
Caucus Item for Part I for discussion of materials and issues
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Sept. 7 |
1. Religious Divisions, European
Expansion, & the Emergence of America
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M: chaps.
2-4
W: [any three]
Luther
Schleitheim
Trent:
Confession
Trent on
Justification
Las Casas
Jesuit Relations
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Sept. 14 |
2.
Protestant Roots of
American Culture |
M:
chaps. 5, 6
P: 1, 10, 11, 12
W: Calvin
Shepherd
Cotton
Williams |
Sept. 21
(& Sept. 28) |
3.
Challenges to
Traditional Protestantism: Revivalism and Enlightenment |
M: chap.
8; P: 2, 14
W:
Whitfield
Cutler
Edwards
Paine
Jefferson/Adams
Amazing Grace (Videotape) |
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PART II:
In God We Trust, 1770-1870
Check
Caucus Item for Part II for discussion of materials and issues |
Oct. 19 |
4.
Revolution, Republican Religion &
American Identity |
M: pp.
154-166; P: 15; LM: 1
W: Choose 2 primary and 1 secondary sources from the
following:
Madison
Jefferson to Baptists
Allen
Wheately
Backus,
Matthews,
Lecture
Sassi,
essay
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Oct. 26 |
5.
Burgeoning
Diversity, & the Evangelical Tide |
M: 10,
11
P: 3, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
W:
Joseph Smith
Charles G Noyes |
Nov. 2 |
6.
The Protestant Quest for a Christian America, Reform
Movements, the Crisis
of Civil War |
M: 12; LM: 5
W:
Lincoln, Letter to J. Speed
Lincoln, Meditation
Lincoln, Fast-Day
Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural |
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PART III. Challenges to Protestant America, 1870-1920
Check
Caucus Item for Part III for discussion of materials and
issues |
Nov. 9 |
7.
Religious
Diversity, Dilemmas of Identity, & Claiming the American Dream |
M: 12, 13; P: 6, 7, 21, 22; LM: 6
W:
Trusteeism
Ethnic Identity
Catholics & Liberty
Ireland
McQuaid
Reform & Conservative Judaism
Morgan,
Destiny of the Indian
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Nov. 16 |
8.
Fragmentation:
Modernism, Fundamentalism, & Other Alternatives in American Religion
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M: 14, 15; P: 5, 23, 24, 26,
27, 28
LM: 7
W:
Pius X
Sullivan
Machen
Mathews.
Washington Gladden
Williams Jennings
Bryan
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Nov. 23
VIRTUAL CLASS |
9.
Social Challenges: Religious Responses to Industrial and Urban America |
M: 16; P: 25
W:
Rauschenbusch
Lawrence |
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PART IV.
Towards a Post-Christian Nation, 1920-2005
Check
Caucus Item for Part IV for discussion of materials and issues |
Nov. 30 |
10 .
Twilight of Protestant America |
M: 17, 18
P: 35
LM: 2, 3
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Dec. 7 |
11.
Reconstruction
of American Religion |
M: 19; Eck, 1-5
P: 9, 32, 33, 34, 38, 39; LM: 4.
WEB:
Shared
Prayers (from NY Times series on Race in America)
Pentecostal
Church, historical overview (from Race in America) |
Dec. 14 |
12.
One and Many: Religion and the Culture Wars |
M: 20; P: 9, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43
LM: 9.
Eck, chaps. 6-7
W:
World
Religions in Boston
Moore, Postscript: Civil and Uncivil Religions
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