RELG 385 - Seminar: Selected Topics in American Religious History

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, WADV

The seminar is an advanced study of selected themes, movements, and personalities in American religious life. Topic for 2015-16: Pentecostalism. One hundred years ago, in 1906, a revival emerged in a small African American house church in Los Angeles that would spark the Pentecostal explosion in America and around the world and become known as the “Third Wave” of Christianity. This course will explore Pentecostalism as a religious and social movement. The class will analyze Pentecostalism from different methodological approaches: historical, theological, and the social sciences. The seminar will examine various topics, including class, race, ethnicity, gender, spirituality, Charismatics, and the internationalization of the movement.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: A. Miller
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes