HIST 3328 Course Schedule

Fall 2016

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 29 Introduction: What is religion?

Aug 31 Religions of Native America

Sep 2 The Evolution of European Religion

Sep 5 Labor Day--No class

Sep 7 The Evolution of European Religion, cont.

Sep 9 The Reformation

Sep 12 Rise of English Puritanism

Sep 14 Puritan New England

Sep 16 Puritan New England, cont.

Sep 19 Quiz: David D. Hall, A Reforming People
   
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Sep 21 Troubles in New England

Sep 23 Troubles in New England

Sep 26 EXAMINATION #1

Sep 28 The Great Awakening

Sep 30 Establishment and Diversity

Oct 3 Enlightenment and Religion

Oct 5 Religion and Revolution

Oct 7 Religion in the New Nation

Oct 10 The Second Great Awakening

Oct 12 The Second Great Awakening, cont.

Oct 14 Quiz: Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias
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Oct 17 The Second Great Awakening in the North

Oct 19 The Second Great Awakening in the North, cont.

Oct 21 Mormonism

Oct 24 EXAMINATION #2

Oct 26 Unitarianism and Transcendentalism

Oct 28 Science and Protestantism

Oct 31 Catholicism in the nineteenth century

Nov 2 Catholicism in the nineteenth century, cont.

Nov 4 Religion and the Civil War

Nov 7 Quiz: Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods
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Nov 9 The Gilded Age

Nov 11 Liberal Protestantism and the Challenges of Industrialization

Nov 14 EXAMINATION #3

Nov 16 The Social Gospel; Fundamentalism

Nov 18 The Fundamentalist Controversy

Nov 21 Quiz: Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, The Color of Christ
   
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Nov 23-27 Thanksgiving Break--No class

Nov 28 Religion between the World Wars

Nov 30 Jews in America

Dec 2 The Churches in the Fifties and Sixties

Dec 5 Sixties and Seventies: Transformation of Popular Religion
Book review due

Dec 7 Religion's Conservative Turn

Dec 12 -- Monday -- 7:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. -- FINAL EXAM
   
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