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Welcome to the
official website for the Fall 2008 version of "Religion in American
History." You should regularly check this website for updates and
use it to answer any questions you may have about the course.
For quick reference's
sake, I've listed below what's coming down the pipe in the next few
weeks.
Updated: 7/24/08
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SECTION I -
Conceptualizing Religion and American Religious History (August 18-20)
M: Introduction:
Advertising the Course
W: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read the syllabus and the University's Academic
Honesty Policy.
- Assignment #2: Read, sign, detach, and turn in the Course Contract
from pg. 6 of this syllabus.
- Assignment #3: Address the following: Is UGA football a religion?
Why or why not? Type your answers and bring them to class today.
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SECTION II -
Religious Encounters (August 22-Sept. 1)
F: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read the syllabus and the University's Academic
Honesty Policy.
- Assignment #2: Read, sign, detach, and turn in the Course Contract
from pg. 6 of the syllabus.
- Assignment #3: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American
Life, pp. 18-22, (starts with "America's Indians also proved
to be deeply religious."), 100-107 (starts with "The story
of Native American religion…" and ends with, ". . . cleared
the way for survival into modern times.")
M: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American
Life, pp. 23-50
W: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Sign-up for Final Assignment Topics
F: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read in Course Packet, "Natural Religion"
from Gaustad and Noll, eds., A Documentary History of Religion in
America to 1877 (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2003),
pp. 9-23.
- Assignment #2: Read Course Packet, "New Spain," and
"New France," Gaustad and Noll, A Documentary History of
Religion in America to 1877, pp. 24-42.
- Assignment #3: Do Source Analysis #1
M: NO CLASS - LABOR
DAY
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