Complete the readings for each date
before
the date listed.
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AUG 25 Introduction: What is religion?
AUG 27 Religions of Native America
AUG 29 The Evolution of European Religion
SEP 1 Labor Day--No class
SEP 3 The Evolution of European Religion, cont.
SEP 5 The Reformation
SEP 8 Quiz: Allan Greer,
Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
Study Questions
SEP 10 The Reformation, cont.; Rise of English Puritanism
SEP 12 Rise of English Puritanism, cont.; Puritan New England
SEP 15 Puritan New England, cont.
SEP 17 Troubles in New England
SEP 19 Troubles in New England, cont.
SEP 22 Quiz: Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
SEP 24 The Great Awakening
SEP 26 Establishment and Diversity
SEP 29 EXAMINATION #1
OCT 1 Enlightenment and Religion
OCT 3 Religion and Revolution
OCT 6 Religion in the New Nation
OCT 8 The Second Great Awakening
OCT 10 The Second Great Awakening, cont.
OCT 13 Quiz: Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz,
The Kingdom of Matthias
Study Questions
OCT 15 The Second Great Awakening, cont.
OCT 17 The Second Great Awakening in the North
OCT 20 The Second Great Awakening in the North, cont.
OCT 22 Unitarianism and Transcendentalism
OCT 24 Religion and the Civil War
OCT 27 Quiz: Kathleen Flake, The Politics
of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon
Apostle
Study Questions
OCT 29 Guest lecture: Liberal Protestantism
OCT 31 Guest lecture: The Social Gospel
NOV 3 EXAMINATION #2
NOV 5 Catholicism in the nineteenth century
NOV 7 Catholicism in the nineteenth century, cont.
NOV 10 Science and Protestantism
NOV 12 Science and Protestantism, cont.
NOV 14 Fundamentalism and the Fundamentalist Controversy
NOV 17
Quiz: Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods
Study Questions
NOV 19 Fundamentalism and the Fundamentalist Controversy, cont.
NOV 21 Religion between the World Wars
NOV 24 Jews in America
NOV 24-28 Thanksgiving Break--No class
DEC 1
The Churches
in the Fifties and Sixties
Paper due
DEC 3 Sixties and Seventies: Transformation of Popular Religion; Religion's Conservative Turn
DEC 9 -- Tuesday -- 7:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. -- FINAL EXAM