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
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
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
Oct 21 Mormonism
Oct 24 EXAMINATION
#2
Oct 26 Unitarianism and Transcendentalism
Oct 28
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
Nov 18 The Fundamentalist Controversy
Nov 21
Nov 23-27
Thanksgiving Break--No class
Nov 28 Religion between the World Wars
Nov 30
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