HIST 3328 Course Schedule

Fall 2015

Complete the readings for each date before the date listed.
Dates are tentative; the professor reserves the right to make changes.
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Aug 24 Introduction: What is religion?

Aug 26 Religions of Native America

Aug 28 The Evolution of European Religion

Aug 31 The Evolution of European Religion, cont.

Sep 2 The Reformation

Sep 4 Rise of English Puritanism

Sep 7 Labor Day--No class

Sep 9 Puritan New England

Sep 11 Puritan New England, cont.

Sep 14 Quiz: Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop

Sep 16 Troubles in New England

Sep 18 The Great Awakening

Sep 21 EXAMINATION #1

Sep 23 Establishment and Diversity

Sep 25 Establishment and Diversity, cont.

Sep 28 Enlightenment and Religion

Sep 30 Religion and Revolution

Oct 2 Religion in the New Nation

Oct 5 Quiz: Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias
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Oct 7 The Second Great Awakening

Oct 9 The Second Great Awakening in the North

Oct 12 The Second Great Awakening in the North, cont.

Oct 14 EXAMINATION #2

Oct 16 Mormonism

Oct 19 Unitarianism and Transcendentalism

Oct 21 Religion and the Civil War

Oct 23 Religion and the Civil War, cont.

Oct 26 Science and Protestantism

Oct 28 Quiz: Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods

Oct 30 Catholicism in the nineteenth century

Nov 2 Catholicism in the nineteenth century, cont.

Nov 4 Catholicism in the nineteenth century, cont.

Nov 6 EXAMINATION #3

Nov 9 Liberal Protestantism

Nov 11 The Social Gospel; Fundamentalism

Nov 13 The Fundamentalist Controversy

Nov 16 Religion between the World Wars

Nov 18 Jews in America

Nov 20 Quiz: Steven P. Miller, The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-Again Years

Nov 23 The Churches in the Fifties and Sixties

Nov 25-27 Thanksgiving Break--No class

Nov 30 Sixties and Seventies: Transformation of Popular Religion
Book review due

Dec 2 Religion's Conservative Turn

Dec 4 -- Friday -- 7:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. -- FINAL EXAM