Complete the readings for each date
before
the date listed.
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AUG 28 Introduction: What is religion?
AUG 31 Religions of Native America
SEP 2 The Evolution of European Religion
SEP 4 The Reformation
SEP 7 Labor Day--No class
SEP 9 Rise of English Puritanism
SEP 11 Rise of English Puritanism, cont.
SEP 14 Quiz: Allan Greer,
Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
Study Questions
SEP 16 Puritan New England
SEP 18 Troubles in New England
SEP 21 The Great Awakening
SEP 23 Establishment and Diversity
SEP 25 Enlightenment and Religion
SEP 28 Quiz: Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
SEP 30 Religion and Revolution
OCT 2 Religion in the New Nation
OCT 5 EXAMINATION #1
OCT 7 The Second Great Awakening
OCT 9 The Second Great Awakening, cont.
OCT 12 Fall Break--No Class
OCT 14 The Second Great Awakening in the North
OCT 16 The Second Great Awakening in the North, cont.
OCT 19 Quiz: John H.
Wigger, Taking Heaven by Storm:
Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America
Study Questions
OCT 21 Unitarianism and Transcendentalism
OCT 23 Religion and the Civil War
OCT 26 Catholicism in the nineteenth century
OCT 28 Catholicism in the nineteenth century, cont.
OCT 30 Science and Protestantism
NOV 2 Quiz: Kathleen Flake, The Politics
of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon
Apostle
Study Questions
NOV 4 Liberal Protestantism
NOV 6 The Social Gospel
NOV 9 EXAMINATION #2
NOV 11 Fundamentalism and the Fundamentalist Controversy
NOV 13 Fundamentalism and the Fundamentalist Controversy, cont.
NOV 16 Jews in America
NOV 18 Jews in America, cont.
NOV 20 Religion between the World Wars
NOV 23
Quiz: Wallace Best, Passionately Human, No
Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago,
1915-1952
Study Questions
NOV 25-27 Thanksgiving Break--No class
NOV 30
The Churches
in the Fifties and Sixties
Paper due
DEC 2 Sixties and Seventies: Transformation of Popular Religion
DEC 6 Religion's Conservative Turn
DEC 9 Quiz: Tona J. Hangen, Redeeming
the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America
Study Questions
DEC 14 -- Monday -- 7:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. -- FINAL EXAM