This schedule is subject to alteration at my discretion, but I will be sure to inform you of any changes. The assignments listed are that day's assignments, so unless otherwise instructed, you will need to complete them before you come to class on the given day (e.g. assignments listed for a Wednesday class must be completed before that Wednesday's class). They should be completed in the order listed (e.g. do Assignment #1 before doing Assignment #2, etc.).

As noted, always bring the assigned readings to class on workshop days.

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.

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

SECTION III - Religious Cultures and Conflicts in Colonial America (Sept. 3-12)

W: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 51-95

F: Lecture

M: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 10-37
- Assignment #2: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 73-80.
- Assignment #3: Do Source Analysis #2

W: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 80-90
- Assignment #2: Read Course Packet, "Weighing the Evidence" from Richard Godbeer, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Trial of 1692 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 88-109. If you need some background on this book, see: http://www.common-place.org/vol-05/no-04/reviews/adams.shtml.
- Assignment #3: Do Source Analysis #3.

F: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 118-137
- Assignment #2: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 92-109

SECTION IV - Rhetoric, Revolution, and Religion (Sept. 15-19)

M: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 142-160
- Assignment #2: Read Course Packet, "Religion and Revolution" from Gaustad and Noll, eds., A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877, pp. 200-219.
- Assignment #3: Read Course Packet, selections from Jacob Cushing, "Divine Judgments Upon Tyrants . . ." (1778), pp. 1-3.
- Assignment #4: Do Source Analysis # 4.

W: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Course Packet, "A Layperson's Guide to Distinguishing a Deist from an Orthodox Christian" from David L. Holmes, The Faiths of the Founding Fathers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 133-141.
- Assignment #2: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 165-180.

F: EXAM #1 - Bring a blue book to class.

SECTION V - The Religious Marketplace of the Early Republic (Sept. 22-29)

NOTE CHANGE IN FINAL ASSIGNMENT DRAFT DUE DATE!!!

M: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 182-195
- Assignment #2: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 197-211

W: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 213-224, 227-end of 238.
- Assignment #2: Read Course Packet, "Developing Patterns (1790s-1865)" from Leonard Dinnerstein, Anti-Semitism in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 13-34.

F: Lecture
- Assignment #1: FIRST 5 PAGES OF FINAL ASSIGNMENT DUE

M: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 245-281.
- Assignment #2: Do Source Analysis #5.

SECTION VI - African-American Religion Before, During, and After Slavery (Oct. 1-6)

W: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 98-100 (end at "…the adherents of European religions"), 107-115 (start at "African religions also experienced exceptional difficulties…"), 239-245.

F: Lecture

M: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Course Packet, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "Negro Spirituals" from Atlantic Monthly, June 1867, pp. 1-21.
- Assignment #2: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 197-220, 328-337 (stop at "The After-Thought").
- Assignment #3: Do Source Analysis #6

SECTION VII - The Civil War as a Religious Event (Oct. 8-13)

W: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 220-244
- Assignment #2: Do Source Analysis #7.

F: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp.247-260

M: Lecture and Field Trip - Dress appropriately for weather!

SECTION VIII - Modernity and America's New Religious Landscape (Oct. 15-31)

W: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 263-277.
- Assignment #2: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 365-377 (end at "Chapter VII")

F: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 352-365

M: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 331-344

W: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 301-321, 323-328
- Assignment #2: Do Source Analysis #8.

F: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, 279-309, 346-362.

M: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 418-423.
- Assignment #2: Read Course Packet, selections from "Studying and Reading the Bible," from Gaustad and Noll, eds., A Documentary History of Religion in America since 1877, pp. 353-364
- Assignment #3: Read Course Packet, F. Bettex, "The Bible and Modern Criticism," from The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, vol. 1, ch. 4, pp. 1-8.
- Assignment #4: Read Course Packet, selections from "Science and Religion," from Gaustad and Noll, eds., A Documentary History of Religion in America since 1877, pp. 322-343
- Assignment #5: Read Course Packet, Henry H. Beach, "The Decadence of Darwinism," from The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, vol. 4, ch. 5, pp. 1-6.
- Assignment #6: Do Source Analysis #9.

W: EXAM #2 - Bring a blue book to class.

F: NO CLASS - FALL BREAK

W: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, Religion in American Life, et al., 364-380.

F: Lecture
- Assignment #1: FIRST 10 PAGES OF FINAL ASSIGNMENT DUE

M: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 517-533, then 434-447.
- Assignment #2: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 461-462 (Day's brief biography), then from "Labor" subheading on p. 478 through p. 486, pp. 486-492.
- Assignment #3: Do Source Analysis #10.

SECTION X - Religious Liberation and Religious Conflict (Nov. 12-17)

W: Lecture

F: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 385-403

M: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 502-517
- Assignment #2: Do Source Analysis # 11.

SECTION XI - The Religious Marketplace and "Culture War America" (Nov. 19-21, Dec. 1-3)

W: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 407-422, 424-437.

F: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 561-571
- Assignment #2: Read Course Packet, "Vatican II and Beyond" from Gaustad and Noll, eds., A Documentary History of Religion in America since 1877, pp. 535-552.
- Assignment #3: Do Source Analysis #12a OR #12b.

THANKSGIVING BREAK - NOVEMBER 24-28 - NO CLASS

M: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 571-584.
- Assignment #2: Read Course Packet, "Pluralism Plus" from Gaustad and Noll., eds., pp. 584-595.
- Assignment #3: Do Source Analysis #12a OR #12b.

W: Lecture
- Assignment #1: FULL 15 PAGES OF FINAL ASSIGNMENT DUE

SECTION XII - The Religious America Around You (Dec. 5-9)

F: Lecture
- Assignment #1: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 438-453.

M: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 609-624.
- Assignment #2: Read Course Packet, "Purpose Driven," from Randall Balmer, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, pp. 322-334.

T: Workshop
- Assignment #1: Read Course Packet, "September 11, 2001" from Gaustad and Noll, eds., pp. 701-708
- Assignment #2: Read Griffith, American Religions, pp. 602-609.
- Assignment #3: Read Butler, et al., Religion in American Life, pp. 457-459.