HIS 131 History of Religion in North America

An historical survey of the North American religious experience from colonial times to the present. Topics include African-American religion, Puritanism, evangelical revivalism religion and politics in antebellum reform Mormonism, Spiritualism, and New Thought religion's response to urbanization industrialization, immigration, religion and science, religion and politics from the radicalism of the 1960s to the neoconservative evangelism of the contemporary period, New Age religion, and women and religion. Although the course emphasizes Christianity, it includes brief examinations of the historical experience of Native Americans, Jews and Muslims.