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
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
Oct 14 EXAMINATION
#2
Oct 16 Mormonism
Oct 19 Unitarianism and Transcendentalism
Oct 21
Oct 23
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
Nov 13 The Fundamentalist Controversy
Nov 16 Religion between the World Wars
Nov 18
Nov 20
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