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Introduction

PART I

PART II

PART III

PART IV

 

 

Regular attendance and skill in note taking are essential. Here you will find brief outline notes of class lectures and discussions. These notes may also expand on some points not covered in class and will also lead to online materials. Use them to supplement your own notes or to catch up with the class if you miss a session. Search the appropriate readings listed in the syllabus to flesh out the outlines. On material and topics you don't understand, raise questions in class, online in the Caucus Forum, by  E-mail or during my offices hours 

PLEASE NOTE: Keep in mind as you work through these topics that a critical sense is necessary in using any sources, print or electronic. In using the Internet it is particularly important to note web authors and sponsoring organizations. You will find Evaluating Web Sources helpful.  

 

INTRODUCTION: E Pluribus Unum: Religion in American Life & the Peculiarities of American Religion

PART I

Topic I: Religious Divisions, European Expansion, & the Emergence of America
Topic 2: Protestant Roots of American Culture
Topic 3: Challenges to Traditional Protestantism: Revivalism and Enlightenment

PART II

Topic 4: Revolution, Republican Religion & American Identity
Topic 5: Burgeoning Diversity, & the Evangelical Tide
Topic 6: The Protestant Quest for a Christian America, Reform Movements, the Crisis of Civil War

PART III

Topic 7:  Religious Diversity, Dilemmas of Identity, & Claiming the American Dream
Topic 8:Fragmentation: Modernism, Fundamentalism, & Other Alternatives in American Religion
Topic 9: Social Challenges: Religious Responses to Industrial and Urban America

PART IV

Topic 10: Twilight of Protestant America
Topic 11: Reconstruction of American Religion
Topic 12: One and Many: Religion and the Culture Wars