Complete the readings for each date
before
the date listed.
Dates are tentative; the professor reserves the right to make changes.
Changes to the Web page supersede any printed class handouts.
Aug 28 Introduction: What is religion?
Aug 30 Religions of Native America
Sep 1 Religions of Native America
Sep 4 Labor Day--No
class
Sep 6 Origins of Christianity
Sep 8 Development of Catholicism
Sep 11 The Protestant Reformation
Sep 13 Puritanism
Sep 15 Puritanism
Sep 18 Quiz:
Edmund S. Morgan, Puritan Dilemma
Sep 20 Puritan New England
Sep 22 Troubles in New England
Sep 25 EXAMINATION
#1
Sep 27 The Great Awakening
Sep 29 Establishment and Diversity
Oct 2 Establishment and Diversity, cont.
Oct 4 Enlightenment and Religion
Oct 6
Oct 9 Religion in the New Nation
Oct 11
Oct 13 Quiz: Paul
E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom
of Matthias
Study Questions
Oct 16
Oct 18 EXAMINATION
#2
Oct 20 The Second Great Awakening in the North
Oct 23 The Second Great Awakening in the North, cont.
Oct 25 Religion and the Civil War
Oct 27 Religion and the Civil War, cont.
Oct 30 Catholicism
Nov 1 Quiz:
Christopher H. Evans, The Social Gospel in American Religion: A History
Study Questions
Nov 3 Catholicism in the nineteenth century, cont.
Nov 6 Unitarianism and Transcendentalism
Nov 8
Nov 10 EXAMINATION
#3
Nov 13
Nov 15
Nov 17 The Fundamentalist Controversy
Nov 20 Quiz:
Steven P. Miller, The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years
Nov 22-26
Thanksgiving Break--No class
Nov 27 The Fundamentalist Controversy
Nov 29 Religion between the World
Wars
Dec 1 Jews in America
Dec 4 The Churches in the Fifties
and Sixties
Book review due
Dec 6 Sixties and Seventies: Transformation of Popular
Religion; Religion’s Conservative Turn
Dec 13 — Wednesday —
7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. — FINAL EXAM