WREL 5025 Religion in America
The story of the native nations and the Pilgrims, revolutionaries and missionaries, presidents and cult leaders who have made the United States what George Santayana called 147a nation with the soul of a church.148 After exploring the religious sources of such basic American values as democracy, capitalism and toleration, the course will examine how the concept of national destiny has developed in crises from the French and Indian Wars through Vietnam to the Persian Gulf and contemporary culture wars.