RELG 283 - American Religious Traditions

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD

The relationship between “religion” and “America” has long been subject to political, religious, and scholarly debate. This course will enter into this discussion, exploring diverse activities, attitudes, and communities understood to be religious and their varied relationships to the material and political conditions of what is now the United States. Topics will include the religious roots of - and religious reactions to - colonialism, imperialism, racism, capitalism, the Cold War, and the Internet age.

Enrollment Limit: 35
Instructor: S. Rabin