Complete the readings for each date
before
the date listed.
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AUG 27 Introduction: What is religion?
AUG 30 Religions of Native America
SEP 1 The Evolution of European Religion
SEP 3 The Evolution of European Religion, cont.
SEP 6 Labor Day--No class
SEP 8 The Reformation
SEP 10 The Reformation, cont.
SEP 13 Quiz: Allan Greer,
Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
Study Questions
SEP 15 Rise of English Puritanism
SEP 17 Rise of English Puritanism, cont.
SEP 20 Puritan New England
SEP 22 Troubles in New England
SEP 24 The Great Awakening
SEP 27 Quiz: Edmund S. Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
SEP 29 The Great Awakening, cont.
OCT 1 Establishment and Diversity
OCT 4 EXAMINATION #1
OCT 6 Enlightenment and Religion
OCT 8 Religion and Revolution
OCT 11 Fall Break--No Class
OCT 13 Religion in the New Nation
OCT 15 The Second Great Awakening
OCT 18 Quiz: Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz,
The Kingdom of Matthias
Study Questions
OCT 20 The Second Great Awakening, cont.
OCT 22 The Second Great Awakening in the North
OCT 25 The Second Great Awakening in the North, cont.
OCT 27 Unitarianism and Transcendentalism
OCT 29 Religion and the Civil War
NOV 1 Quiz: Kathleen Flake, The Politics
of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon
Apostle
Study Questions
NOV 3 Religion and the Civil War, cont.
NOV 5 Catholicism in the nineteenth century
NOV 8 EXAMINATION #2
NOV 10 Science and Protestantism
NOV 12 Liberal Protestantism
NOV 15 The Social Gospel
NOV 17 Fundamentalism and the Fundamentalist Controversy
NOV 19 Jews in America
NOV 22
Quiz: Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods
Study Questions
NOV 24-28 Thanksgiving Break--No class
NOV 29
Religion between the World
Wars
Paper due
DEC 1 The Churches in the Fifties and Sixties
DEC 3 Sixties and Seventies: Transformation of Popular Religion
DEC 6 Quiz: William R. Hutchison,
Religious Pluralism in America
Study Questions
DEC 8 Religion's Conservative Turn
DEC 10 -- Friday -- 7:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. -- FINAL EXAM