HIST 3329 HISTORY OF RELIGION IN AMERICA
IN-DEPTH STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF RELIGION ON AMERICAN HISTORY FROM PRE-COLONIAL TIMES TO PRESENT DAY. SPECIAL CONSIDERATION PAID TO WHERE POLITICS AND RELIGION OVERLAP. ATTENTION GIVEN TO CONTEMPORARY SOURCES AND MODERN INTERPRETATIONS OF SUCH EVENTS. PARTICULAR TOPICS MIGHT INCLUDE: NATIVE-AMERICAN SPIRITUALITY, PURITANISM, THE GREAT AWAKENING, THE ENLIGHTENMENT, REVIVALISM, THE RISE OF DENOMINATIONALISM, ANTI-CATHOLICISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, THE EMERGENCE OF SECTS AND CULTS, AFRICAN-AMERICAN RELIGION, AND CIVIL RELIGION. SEMESTER HOURS: THREE PREREQUISITE: 3 CREDITS OF HISTORY LIMITATION ON ENROLLMENT: 25 TYPE OF COURSE: ELECTIVE